Everybody in society must [...]
Solutions starting with "everybody in society must" have a long and celebrated tradition of going immediately (and often horrifically) pear-shaped, as it inevitably turns out that most of everybody doesn't want to, and therefore won't, and in many cases, can't.
For examples, see the Soviet Union's Communism, China's Great Leap Forward, the Khmer Rouge's agricultural collectivism, North Korea's juche, etc.
Because that is the level of our best AI - an intern.
... this year. And next year, the same logic will have us getting rid of all of the entry-level employees, and the year after that, the mid-level employees, and some years from now, all employees. Yay, progress?
So how long before the jokes all comedians tell all sound the same (same theme, same setup, same punchline)?
Comedians will do anything that works to get a laugh, but sourcing jokes from ChatGPT (or similar) is not an effective way to get a laugh. Comedy is based on surprise, and LLMs are based on summarizing old material, so there's a bit of a mismatch there.
This is a great time to remind ourselves that a LLM is just a fancy autocomplete engine.
Well, sure, in the same way a 747 is just a fancy mechanical bird. Which is to say, yes, but no.
What's gonna stop obesity among Americans isn't permanent standard time. It really, REALLY isn't that.
A good start would be making healthy food that isn't 1,000,000 calories per pound, and not made of fat and sugar mixed in unknown chemicals affordable. And taxing the living shit out of junk food. And getting people to stop eating supertanker-sized servings.
If it's the will of the person?
Because people aren't solitary islands whose deaths harm only themselves. Anyone who has lived on Earth for more than a few days has formed relationships with other people, and suicide is the murder of a person those people have a relationship with. Suicide harms everyone who interacts with or depends on that suicider for anything, in much the same way that the murder of that person would.
Being dead, after all, is just like being stupid, only people around you are bothered by it.
Yes, that is precisely the problem.
The question is simply, can an agentic LLM process do workload X for cheaper than a person? If yes, then the job is gone.
Typical AI shill answer (and the word "agentic" in the sentence is a dead giveaway too).
Wrong logic: a person's job should be gone if your "agentic" thing does the job cheaper AND at least as well.
As always, AI shills conveniently forget to factor in the quality of the work produced.
The reality of AI is, while it might be cheaper than real workers, it also enshittifies the entire world. And that's a fact.
Does it work without a Facebook account and 24/7 creepy corporate surveillance?
Oh...
The issue is: how many people did AI displace?
Hmm no: I trust a coal miner to produce better code than an AI vibe coder.
The two most common things in the Universe are hydrogen and stupidity. -- Harlan Ellison
