Hacker News, where a fun fantasy game with zero world-modeling ambitions is criticized as a failed medieval simulation by software engineers who know little about anthropology/sociology/history.
“Unplugging the AI would force us to deal with our problems” doesn’t sound like a reason AI is mandatory.
If anything, it reinforces my impression that AI’s true application is allowing institutions to kick the can down the road further, just with a novel excuse.
Isn’t the root problem here municipal debt, and/or societal debt?
A previous commenter mentioned that cruises (paraphrase) “lack the colonial feel of mexican resorts” which is a testament to the power of consumerist illusion.
In my anecdotal experience, many New York City landlords don’t see their tenants as human beings, just a revenue source. Tenants complain? Maybe a city inspector shows up, a day or days later, so the landlord can turn the heat/water back on, and the inspector reports “no issue found.” People get mad and move out? New tenants pay an even higher rent! Heard horror stories about both individual and management company landlords. Can’t be the only city like this.
I’m pretty sure the long histories of social unrest under feudalism, the French Revolution, the mere existence of Marxism and Renter’s Rights Law, strongly beg to differ with your contention.
If you have a backlog of 4500 “developer years” worth of upgrades, lack of AI wasn’t the problem, and making some attention nodes go brr cannot solve the root problem.
Java is a super verbose language, yet keeps getting written because “everyone knows java.” Has the cost of maintaining Java finally reached such critical mass that only an LLM can affordably maintain it?
It’s twelve-step based, but more focused on recognizing and managing one’s traumas. ACA can synergize nicely w/ therapy. Since it is technically free, it could be a useful companion to therapy, or even a substitute while professional is not available.
I am in US, but ACA is international.
I am a big believer in therapy, but it can be costly, and finding an effective therapist for you can be a difficult onramp to effective care. ACA + therapy has been a helpful combination for me.
Premise of the article is roughly: if all this litigation continues, the AI industry could collapse.
Serious naive question: How would that not be a desirable outcome for society? “AI” is becoming a scourge.
AI’s value-add that we truly need is just detecting cancer right? Obviously I don’t want anyone to die from cancer if they could be saved. But AI in cancer detection is a detection-rate booster: cancer can be detected without it. A non-AI process could try to recover some of the lost accuracy.
Weigh this against the misinformation potential of chatGPT, deepfake video fraud, discriminatory bias in ML model output, the surveillance potential of image recognition, addictive social media, the essential inscrutability of model output… (i could go on, but the research & reporting on AI as we have wielded it is voluminous)
So if litigation kills AI, isn’t that cause for celebration, on-balance?
Or shit, can’t we just legislate easier usage regulation for lifesaving medical data, so we can keep the cancer detection use cases and let the rest of the AI gold rush die?