I am a bit surprised by the response this little rant of mine had.

And I want to thank everyone who engaged in this thread. I would comment to each of your msgs, but at the end I will end up repeating myself.

Instead, I will have follow up toots addressing the mayor common topics that emerged from your answers or to further clarify my position.

Hope to see you there as well!
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@glaskows It's just replacing the already boring stuff so you can focus on more depth.

Like computers once did or fire before it :D

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Its not people really, it’s really capital.

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big corporations has invested heavily in certain types of software, and then some people realised that they might have done so in a criminal way and initiated litigation

when legal departments had mulled over these litigations they found it could at best go either way so executives decided to launch the half-assed products they'd already made and pay for a massive mass-media mediated hype to undermine the litigations, get free labour and also undermine regulatory efforts in the eu

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Most of the recent developments have been letting humans interact with computers using natural language. That frees up an enormous amount of time, and in some respects, levels the playing field in computer interaction assuming equal access to such tools.

My main short term concern is the lack of a safety net for office workers, lawyers and engineers whose jobs become automated.

@glaskows Predominantly there is a major dearth of specific media, and it's fun to create high quality stuff to fill that need.

Not everything already exists.

@glaskows it's not AI reaseach that wants to "replace the best parts of humanity with auto generated low quality sameness.", that's what bosses and governments want.

the more dull and predictable our lives become, the better we are to control. i for one hope AI can give us some new interesting wrenches to throw into their gears.

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I heard this in regard to arts education funding but I think it also applies here:

They want to cut funding for arts education because it encourages political/critical thinking.

Translation: they want to cut real interaction to homogenize the outputs to discourage political/critical thinking

@glaskows Think it for a moment. People who always have felt that creators are an special category now can do it better whitout effort and say to that "smarty-pants" In your face.

The common of people aren't thinking about the next step. They 're only excited about the possibilities open for them, not the consequences.

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my hope for AI is that it will automate away some tedious aspects of creativity and enable more experimentation and exploration (vs exploitation); the bad outcomes, as usual, will come from people who primarily want to use it to make money (vs to make art)

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It can't and won't replace Geoff, but....

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGJmc7mek/

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