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Bill Gates warns AI will take over most jobs and leave humans working just two days a week (www.the-express.com)
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[–] krimson@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Earlier this year, Geoffrey Hinton, dubbed the "Godfather of AI," highlighted the severe wealth disparity that AI developments could generate.

"We're talking about having a huge increase in productivity. So there's going to be more goods and services for everybody. So everybody ought to be better off, but actually it's going to be the other way around," Hinton stated during a panel discussion. "And it's because we live in a capitalist society."

"And so what's going to happen is: this huge increase in productivity is going to make much more money for the big companies and the rich, and it's going to increase the gap between the rich and the people who lose their jobs. And as soon as you increase that gap, you get fertile ground for fascism," he continued. "And so it's very scary that we may be at a point where we're just making things worse and worse."

This seems spot-on to me. All you downvoters obviously didn't read the article.

[–] mereo@piefed.ca 1 points 22 hours ago

Unfortunately, this place became just like reddit.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Far be it for me to point out that the "godfather of AI" has a vested interest in AI being seen as more capable than maybe it actually is. But more to the point we know that AI systems like loose on an environment cause absolute chaos and fail disastrously.

There was an experiment a couple of months ago where they tried to get an AI to run a small business and I think at one point it ended up sending emails to the FBI claiming it had been defrauded because a product it ordered didn't instantly materialise.

[–] Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

Always feels like it's less that ai can't do the things we keep trying to make it do. But that we are acting like we have had another 20 years of development in the tech.

So everyone's just playing make believe and pretending it's 2045 in 2025.