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In reply to the discussion: Citrini Research just published a viral scenario for AI causing economic collapse by 2028. It's rattled AI proponents. [View all]JT45242
(3,961 posts)19. Except AI does not work like they promise
Try to make biology test questions about commensalism/mutualism/etc. and the AI will swap animals without regrads to facts -- it can write a test question that beavers are apex predators; that killer whales and great white sharks have mututalism relationship. It thinks that all animals are interchangable.
Then eventually communities are going to make these AI behemoths pay for the electricity and then it will all shut down.
AI is more likely to burst than cause massive layoffs for white collar employees because the GIGO model means that most of what it spits out is garbage...good enough to fool an MBA in managemnet (especially the closer to the C-suite that you get) but not anyone with real knowledge in an industry
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Citrini Research just published a viral scenario for AI causing economic collapse by 2028. It's rattled AI proponents. [View all]
highplainsdem
19 hrs ago
OP
I want to see the crypto bros lose, too. Crypto is nothing but a Ponzi scheme.
highplainsdem
15 hrs ago
#27
The AI peddlers and fans want to believe they're good guys, so they have to pretend all those
highplainsdem
18 hrs ago
#4
Lutnick gleefully predicted a future when the majority of the population . . .
peggysue2
16 hrs ago
#24
It's being implemented, and employees are being laid off, despite the IP theft and despite the
highplainsdem
18 hrs ago
#8
If all you stated is correct, then companies using AI to a the extent necessary to replace humans will be outcompeted
andym
17 hrs ago
#10
Outcompeting takes time. People can be laid off quickly. And the AI bubble is driven by FOMO.
highplainsdem
17 hrs ago
#13
"Learn to code" is now "Get a manual job" - There will be a collapse in higher education jobs as well
dalton99a
18 hrs ago
#7