What do these companies see in AI that I don’t? It’s not profitable and I’m yet to see positive application. I found something mentioning that it’s fighting climate change (which evidently seems like the opposite of reality) and fighting fake news (which itself is mostly powered by AI).
Even when I pull up a Microsoft webpage that is trying to advocate for AI usage, it has the most abhorrent use of AI in stock image form to kick off the article.
Riding the bubble, just don’t forget to get off before it bursts.
MS is just part of the hype machine. If they can socialize the cost of new generation (getting the government to restart 3MI) to buy cheap 'leccy, they’re actually hedging against the bubble.
They’ll have nice shiny data centres with very cheap power locked in long after the bubble has burst.
The overarching goal for AI is to seize the means of production (not even joking). For all of history the ruling class (pharaohs/monarchs/dictators/capitalists) has been entirely dependent on workers for the means of production. They control the capital, but capital has no intrinsic value. The workers turn that capital into <anything>, but the workers are also the greatest threat to their wealth and power; especially maintaining control of the military.
Once they control fully autonomous killing machines, they no longer have to worry about mortal theories like ethics, morality, empathy, or concepts like “freedom” and “democracy”. Once machines replace the workers, they can cull a majority of the human population, and keep all the planets resources for themselves — humanity has been over-consuming every resource since the early 1900’s, and if major changes do not occur we’ll likely kill the planets ability to support human civilisation entirely.
What do these companies see in AI that I don’t? It’s not profitable and I’m yet to see positive application. I found something mentioning that it’s fighting climate change (which evidently seems like the opposite of reality) and fighting fake news (which itself is mostly powered by AI).
Even when I pull up a Microsoft webpage that is trying to advocate for AI usage, it has the most abhorrent use of AI in stock image form to kick off the article.
Massive surveillance and RoboCop.
Well yeah… That’s all I can see and it’s fucking depressing.
Riding the bubble, just don’t forget to get off before it bursts.
MS is just part of the hype machine. If they can socialize the cost of new generation (getting the government to restart 3MI) to buy cheap 'leccy, they’re actually hedging against the bubble.
They’ll have nice shiny data centres with very cheap power locked in long after the bubble has burst.
The overarching goal for AI is to seize the means of production (not even joking). For all of history the ruling class (pharaohs/monarchs/dictators/capitalists) has been entirely dependent on workers for the means of production. They control the capital, but capital has no intrinsic value. The workers turn that capital into <anything>, but the workers are also the greatest threat to their wealth and power; especially maintaining control of the military.
Once they control fully autonomous killing machines, they no longer have to worry about mortal theories like ethics, morality, empathy, or concepts like “freedom” and “democracy”. Once machines replace the workers, they can cull a majority of the human population, and keep all the planets resources for themselves — humanity has been over-consuming every resource since the early 1900’s, and if major changes do not occur we’ll likely kill the planets ability to support human civilisation entirely.