@rayckeith
About benefits of #AI:

"They work with Innocence Project of New Orleans, which has exonerated people. They can go through all the arrest reports and find the ones that match successful exonerations.

They give those to lawyers who would otherwise just be starting alphabetically or chronologically, sorting to the top the ones that are most like the ones that led to a successful exoneration.

This is hugely important. It is getting innocent people out of prison."

#Doctorow

@rayckeith

About fake #AI:

There’s a chapter in the book about how many demos for AI just turned out to be people in India pretending to be robots.

"The most egregious example was when #Amazon announced you could walk into [an Amazon Go store], grab stuff off the shelf, and walk out again, and the AI knows what you took.

There wasn’t an AI. It was three people in India watching each customer through a network of cameras in the ceiling, trying to guess what you put in your bag."

#Doctorow

@rayckeith

About the difference between dot.com losses and the current #AI losses:

"What made the web profitable was good unit economics: every time someone started using the web, the web got less unprofitable. Every user and every generation of web technology has made the web more profitable.

That’s the opposite of AI. Every AI customer loses money for the company, every use of AI by that customer loses more money, and every generation of AI loses more money than the last one."

#Doctorow

@rayckeith

Cory #Doctorow in this interview:

"Every corporate leader is haunted by the fear that if they don’t show up for work, everything goes on just fine. But if the workers don’t show up, everything shuts down.

#AI will let them wire directly into the drivetrain. They can have an amazing idea and don’t have to have any ego-shattering confrontations with people who know how to do things, tell you you’re an idiot.

You just type some stuff to the chatbot, and it shits out your product."

@heliopolitan @pluralistic

Reading #Doctorow on the #Psion?

#epoc16 #psion3 #reverseCentaur