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Comment Re:What Everyone Is Getting Wrong About AI And Job (Score 1) 34

And what about the half of the population which has an IQ lower than 100? Dumb people need to eat too, and if they can't they pick up pitchforks and torches (metaphorically). When robots run by AIs are washing dishes and picking strawberries the people who previously did those jobs are not going to be doing things requiring "human creativity and judgement".

Comment Re: Sounds like a standard medical scam. (Score 1) 34

spend a minimum of about 80% on care

Indeed, so the more the insurance cartel can charge the more profit they can suck in. That's not a hard equation. Perhaps if there were actually some minimal amount of competition allowed in the business prices might be lower, but that's just crazy talk . . .

Comment Re:Sounds like a standard medical scam. (Score 0) 34

My insurance keeps going up because private insurance in America has a monopoly on access to healthcare so they can charge whatever they want until the public gets so fed up they demand a single pair of healthcare system.

If things continue the way they're going with voter suppression and right wing extremists buying up the voting machine companies I don't think it'll matter anymore and then that will be the end of that. About 10% of the country will be allowed to have health care and odds are you won't be in it.

Comment Re:Way too early, way too primitive (Score 1) 34

Don't mistake ChatGTP as representative of all types of AI, because it's not. And you shouldn't mistake "highly-trained jobs" as being only ones requiring extensive education, it takes years of training to run the largest heavy equipment but China already has fully automated open pit mining. AI is automating drafting of building plans, logistical planning, and purchasing, all fields where 'hallucinations' would be catastrophic and yet it doesn't occur. The lack of education about this exceedingly important field, even among those who one would expect to be more technologically knowledgeable like SlashDot users, is appalling.

Comment Re:Sure (Score 1) 34

Thanks for pointing that out, far too many people think that ChatGPT is representative of all AI. There are a LOT of exceedingly important uses AIs of various types have been put to, this being one one of them. Robotics for example relies on it completely, the days of writing thousands of lines of code just to get your robotic quadruped to walk in a straight line on a level floor are gone (thank goodness). Atlas can do a backflip and Picklebot can unload a truck of random boxes because they are controlled by a properly trained AI.

Comment You do not want AI examining your X-rays (Score 1, Informative) 34

AI is designed to take shortcuts in order to improve performance. It's already been caught more than once for example appearing to find problems on an X-ray with a very high rate of success when in actuality it had just picked up on a simple pattern where for example something is dumb as a ruler was included on the X-rays that had the problems and wasn't included on an X-ray that didn't...

Not that any of us have any say in this whatsoever. AI bullshit is going to dominate everything whether we like it or not. Just like how the price of ram has increased by 5 to 10 times and we all just have to suck it down.

We have a very small window left to the side of we are going to live in a society where around 2,000 people get to decide how we live. And we need to decide if having the girl that hands us our coffee say Merry Christmas is worth giving up everything else to those 2,000 people.

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