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Black Mirror creator unafraid of AI because it’s “boring”::Charlie Brooker doesn’t think AI is taking his job any time soon because it only produces trash

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Good points.

One problem with replacing everything with AI that people don't think about: middle managers will start to be replaced too. There's no way to ask a LLM "why did you do that"? Fewer people will need to be managed.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It seems unwise to replace managers with LLMs because LLMs don't understand the real world implications of their responses, they don't have awareness of the real world, they simply give you often used language patterns, which can be innacurate or biased based on flawed human data. But it would be a great way for sketchy human executives to offload responsibility for unethical actions and feign objectivity or uninvolvement, so I don't doubt they will try.

Even if we imagine a perfect AI that does takes into account every objective fact and philosophical argument, that still leaves the question of how will the people who get replaced in all these intellectual, artistic and service jobs will make a living. That's not an answer that technology will give us, that will a nasty political situation.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No, you misunderstood. The managers are fired because there's fewer people to manage.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

That makes sense too. Overall, a lot of people's jobs are threatened, but I don't think "learn AI" is going to cut it this time. Not for all these people.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

LLMs don’t understand the real world implications of their responses

LLMs don't, but specialised AI trained for that specific purpose would.