I could not understand this optimism, aren't we living in a capitalist world ?
Plenty of people could already work less today if they just spent less. Historically any of the last big productivity booms could have similarly let people work less, but here we are.
If AI actually comes about and if AGI replaces humans at most cognitive labor, we'll find some way to keep ourselves busy even if the jobs ultimately are as useless as the pet rock or the Jump to Conclusions Mat (Office Space reference for anyone who hasn't seen it).
Probably not. We're deep in the hype bubble, so AI is strongly overused. Once the bubble pops and things calm down, some use-cases may well emerge from the ashes but it'll be nowhere near as overused as it is now.
> AI has become a race between countries and companies, mostly due to status. The company that creates an AGI first will win and get the most status.
There's a built-in assumption here that AGI is not only possible but inevitable. We have absolutely no evidence that's the case, and the only people saying we're even remotely close are tech CEOs who's entire business model depends on people believing that AGI is around the corner.
I don't think these things are really that correlated. In fact, kind of the opposite. Hype is all talk, not actual usage.
I think this will turn out more like the internet itself. Wildly overhyped and underused when the dotcom bubble burst. But over the coming years and decades it grew steadily and healthily until it was everywhere.
Agreed re: AGI though.
dude250711•28m ago
> As a manager, AI is really nice to get a summary of how everything is going at the company and what tasks everyone is working on and the status of the tasks, instead of having refinement meetings to get status updates on tasks.
I do not understand why they are not marketing some "GPT Middle Manager" to the executive boards so that they could cut that fat. Surely that is a huge untapped cost-cutting potential?
nikolayasdf123•23m ago