No you can’t. Although you could fool me in the following circumstances, but not because they are improbable: all dictionaries are rewritten to change meanings appropriately, and I am taken to a nice steak dinner followed by a movie and a few glasses of wine,
I think we need it for just having a chance at not ending up in a dystopia or of making the dystopia at least one where escapism is top notch. As I see it the world is deeply unjust and the power imbalance is too steep to think anything can work in fixing it. I don’t see it as possible to right this ship through collective action before the window for that closes. A.I. is the only variable that’s unaccounted for in my view and so I am literally all in on it. It’s basically like a shot on the buzzer from your side of the field in basketball, chances are you won’t make it but it’s the only chance you have left to win this game and so you go for it, there’s a reason it’s called an Hail Mary in basketball. That’s what A.I. is for me, an Hail Mary on the buzzer.
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Microsoft is now offering their Artificial Intelligence product called, “Co-Pilot Pro” for a flat monthly fee. The start to profit from A.I. has begun.
Microsoft Copilot is quite good at doing verbal searches in Mandarin and English or a combination of both.
@shutterbug With the introduction of A.I. and ChatGPT, these new technologies are bound to cause some “structural unemployment”.
Tell someone who is fifty-five and who has written for his entire life that he has to train for a new career and out of his own pocket now that he is unemployed. That isn’t realistic. I think we need a hefty tax imposed on all AI use, the funds going to those who have been displaced to help them.
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Train for a new career, yes. Out of his own pocket, not necessarily if the government realizes that due to no fault of the worker that his industry has been superseded by technology. The government is willing to use tax payer dollars to assist in the re-training of workers that have been displaced due to “structural unemployment”.
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I’m not a Luddite
But how will AI benefit anyone other than those already empowered?
It was once said that, “Why would any household need a computer?”.
Or, “How do you make money on the Internet?”
Similar to how the transition from cellular phones to smartphones took place, voice dictated questions will be answered intelligently by A.I.
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I really don’t want to have to try to list all the possibilities as it would take me forever but just look at this article as an example. Many of these applications will have an impact on ordinary people.
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Personally I think that targeted welfare due to job displacement is a misguided idea. We are suffering inflation and seeing a rise in interest rates to lower it which works by creating job displacement and increasing unemployment and that’s the route we are picking to solve the inflationary forces in the economy. Now you can say what you want about it but as long as that’s the case that type of unemployment disproportionately impacts the lower classes while AI unemployment is much more of a middle class issue. Why should it always be the poor the ones bailing out the economy? I think we should reinforce indiscriminate welfare which is much more cost-efficient rather than engage in things like this. There should be training programs put in place by the government open to anyone who wants to tackle a new career among those needed in the job market but ultimately the issue is that there shouldn’t be requirements to enter these programs, they should exist for everyone and be used by those that need them and the ultimate goal should always be to institute some form of basic income or any other way in which people are guaranteed at least their dignity with things like guaranteed housing and food.
Shoot. I even had this problem pre the start of the AI craze. Psychosis broke me out of my career path. By the time I’m thinking just maybe I might be able to work again, I’m like “Wtf, do I have the energy to start all over at my age?” So at this point I will probably just supplement SSDI with a part time low skill job when I need to.
I guess my point is that I can empathize with those who are displaced and would have to train all over to get back to where they were.
Edit: Not to say that I’m sure I could handle a stressful job anymore anyway. And I would have to address my sleep issues.
The most notable reaction I have seen from businesses is: Now I don’t have to pay someone to do that.
Tax dollars come from tax payers. Unemployed people pay less if no tax. The tax burden will need to be shifted to those using AI to compensate. Ideally, AI will be priced so that it is more expensive than hiring a human and its use tightly regulated.
That seems unlikely to me. But I guess I could be wrong.
I have no idea what is likely at this point because we’re wandering off the edge of the map. Society can only sustain so many concurrent disruptions before something has to give.
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Whether those taxes be business tax, capital gains tax, sales tax, property tax or income tax the lump sum of revenue the government receives is enough to fund retraining of workers affected by “structural unemployment”.
Should a person late in life be forced to retrain? A more viable option I believe is to price AI like we do cigarettes and other products that are a burden on society. Businesses can still use AI, but not to displace people. They can choose to use it to empower people instead. If they replace people, they will wind up paying more than if they had kept their staff. That is, to me, the most viable option.
Everyone thinks everything should be free. It is not. It takes work. It took the work of humans to create the material AIs were trained on. That work should retain value when AIs process it and regurgitate it.
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For someone who is 55-years old and above to retrain into a new occupation is difficult. If they are unable to learn new skills then perhaps they will need to accept employment that requires less learned skills and is more basic. Not all 55-year olds have job security as other 55-year olds who are vulnerable to “structural unemployment”. This macroeconomic issue is dynamic and is constantly changing. Artificial Intelligence is here to stay whereas other jobs will have to go.
The jobs only have to go if we decide to throw older workers under the bus. Price AI accordingly and we can have both the benefits of AI and allow those who wish to continue working to do so.
Edit: I’d also like to point out that I have over 25,000 images online in various places. There is no doubt that AIs were trained using my work. It cost me a lot of time and money to make those images over the decades. Where is my compensation for the use of my work?
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