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Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying (www.thenerve.news)
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[–] 4 points 1 week ago (1 child)

Super cool! Well we can base your personal healthcare on AI's sole guidance and if you are misdiagnosed, injured or dead as a result of an "oopsie", no human will be held legally liable - fun!

So no real stakes for anyone to get it right, as with human-led interventions (with careers on the line at every stage to keep people engaged and honest). But corporations will probably just naturally do the right thing.

But you're brave, you offer yourself as tribute to the lying machine. Tight tight tight!!!

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  • [+] -6 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    You seem very passionate about this topic, but you're not really adding much to the discussion.

    Don't worry, its coming across loud and clear that AI could cure cancer and you'd still think it was better to have cancer than use AI. I get it. AI = bad, full stop. Message received.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago

    "AI" isn't a thing. Computer vision, machine learning, natural language processing and neural networks are. These can all be useful tools when regulated and maintained with active oversight to balance with society's other core priorities. What's at question is the current method and human cost for this frivolously hyped, deceptively marketed lying machine with a single tangible use to date, being the operating system for Facebook's pervert glasses. You didn't read, of missed the entire point of, this important article, shared from an important contemporary mind.

    Name and cite SPECIFIC examples of anything you claim.

    P.s. you don't "cure cancer"... cancer is a broad heading for hundreds of unique types of disease, presenting in different, completely unique systems within the human body. Like AI, "a cure for cancer" is a broad generalization of complex underlying systems that ignorant people make frivolously - People who think they HAVE the entire knowledge of the world in their brains, when they actually only have a plastic rectangle in their pants pocket with privilege-gated access to a (mostly corporate) CURATED VERSION of the world's historic knowledge. So if you've "cured cancer" friend, why aren't you treating the 20-30k humans that will die from a form or cancer today worldwide?

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