Dread Pirate (Tom) RobertsMar 1

Fucking Alan Kohler... the ABC does the public a disservice by printing his garbage.

"It isn't just that AI could take your job, or put millions of people on welfare, or give us infinite free software, or whatever. It's that for the first time in all of recorded history, humans no longer are — or soon no longer will be — the most intelligent beings on this planet, in any meaningful functional sense of the word." (Alan quoting some guy Noah Smith)

"any meaningful functional sense"

... someone show Alan the carwash video.

#AI #AlanKohler

Show threadChookMother 🇦🇺🦘Mar 1
@troberts I really appreciate his articles. His area of expertise is finance and the economy and he gives it a real-life context. There are different predictions about where the surge in AI deployment is heading. Nobody knows for certain.
Show threadDread Pirate (Tom) Roberts

@anne_twain No body knows "for certain".

But the ABC shouldn't have Alan regularly saying all the white collar jobs in the world will be replaced, because he doesn't know that either.

It's not journalism if it's just repeating the over-blown claims of American Tech CEOs week after week.

Mar 1 at 10:33pmWeb
Show threadChookMother 🇦🇺🦘Mar 1
@troberts "Opinion" articles make up a large part of the news. You just happen to disagree with this opinion. But, respectfully, I can't see that your opinion is more valid. As I said, we don't know which direction things are going to go. I don't understand why people try to be soothsayers.