Cory DoctorowThis profile of me in *The New Yorker* came out really well, if I do say so myself:
Charlie Stross@pluralistic The problem with AI is that it doesn't suffer from Baumol's Cost Disease, so there's a strong incentive in capitalism to use it to replace labour in previously-non-automatable areas. Even though it's highly fallible, and using it as an excuse to cut labour costs means abolishing the capability to detect when it's silently running off the rails.
EmacsenAlmost 20 years ago I worked at a company doing medical coding (billing) using an early version of AI.
We automated what had been a manual process and saved hospitals a lot of money.
We had both an "assistant" product and fully automated product.
It was well known that we made mistakes. Humans did too, transcription mistakes, judgment mistakes- it happened.
We didn't have to be more accurate than humans, we just had to save the hospital more than the difference.
tolortslubor@emacsen @cstross @pluralistic #selfdriving cars will kill less people than #humandrivers; will #AIexecutives and #AIcivilservants kill less people than the #human ones? Seems future generations will thank us for thinking long-term, and a significant % of #Homosapiens care
@tolortslubor @emacsen @pluralistic Eh, wrong. You're giving half-assed AI to human institutions, not perfect AI to perfect humans. Mistakes Will Be Made (like the LAPD giving autonomous robots bombs).
@cstross @tolortslubor @pluralistic
I've seen less of this clip than I should have
