(AI will) reach or exceed human capacity” by 2027
Dude. It hasn't even reached the capacity of a mildly intellectually challenged mouse.
this post was submitted on 16 Oct 2025
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Have you people spoken with 60% of humanity?
Lying like this will get us nowhere.
Actually. You're right. I kinda retract my previous statement. With a heavy heart, I might add.
Most calculators exceed human capacity.
Not intellectually. But mathematically. Most humans at least. Me for sure, I can't even add two 1-digit-numbers in head without thinking :-)
For sure, I was just pointing out the absurdity of saying it when machines like computers already do.
AI its current form is nowhere near general intelligence even when you string several different platforms together.
Like any tool it has it uses and misuses. I really could see an basic local AI on every personal computer that is like a help desk and secretary built in. Unfortunately that is not what these companies seem to be going for.
They are accelerating to agi, if it’s possible we are apparently going to find out.
But they will use the entirety of the earths resources on this. That have the money and resources now and they don’t give a fuck what we think
Oh no. God beware we would get really useful shit out of AI. Where's the profit in that.... Recently installed a mod for Cyberpunk, which used generative AI to voice 5 trillion text-thingies so you could actually hear the lore while continue gaming. One single person was able to voice tons of thousands of text-lines with many different voices, accents and flairs. THAT was an excellent use for AI and it is even very good voice-"acting".
So yeah, there are some really good ways to use it. But not in my toaster or toothbrush. And yeah, a basic LOCAL(!) AI on every computer I would appreciate. Focus here is LOCAL though. But again: where's the profit in that.
I’m working on a project using it too. I’m a professional artist by trade so it’s kind of why I laugh at all this insistence that it’s all bad.
People hate what they don't understand. Like race or sex different from their own 😁 And "AI" surely is a difficult concept to grasp, even for techies.
This is kinda cope
Practically everyone's job is going to be automated away before long, the important thing is that production is socialised before practically 1 guy owns everything and has to pay no one.
At that point things end up pretty concrete.
These opinion pieces that pop up saying "ha-HA! Behold the petard they're hoisting themselves with!" Kinda miss the importance of preparation.
They falsely expect an easing to an exponential curve.
The cat leapt out of the bag decades ago, we all need to make sure we've got something left at the end of it all
We haven’t yet made an AI that can replace anyone’s job, so it might be better to hold off on resigning ourselves to that fate.
I replaced all of my online contractors with AI. Our business will only hire local people from now on.
It is well worth the money, and we just had it write a few programs that do what those contractors did.
It sums up our email inbox for us.
It writes near perfect customer responses (trained on our business data).
I’m not sure what to tell you but some of you are going to be blindsided.
It’s just a small business, too. Now that we don’t need to pay those contractors (who did a worse job than what we get now) we are scaling up.
Believe me or don’t but i can’t be the only one doing this.
Hard to tell what the actual value is here since “Online contractors” is a bit vague. AI coding is error prone and pretty limited. It’s basically a requirement to have someone to babysit it and studies done on this exact arrangement have shows that practically speaking far more time is wasted implementing AI in this arrangement than just having people do it.
The customer responses thing is fairly simple but is one of those cases where it works until it doesn’t. Small hallucinations by AI can mean serious liability for companies. At a bare minimum customers know they’re being replied to by a text generator and that results in feelings that you don’t value their patronage that much. Nobody liked getting pre-written responses written by humans. Having a bot generate a response without any input from an employee of your company is practically an insult.
When I say “AI can’t replace anyone’s job” I don’t mean that you physically can’t fire somebody and then turn on an AI, but that it is not and likely won’t ever be a worthwhile replacement. In your case you’ve “replaced people with AI” in the same sense as you can “replace” someone by firing them and not hiring a replacement at all. You save a few bucks, customer experience gets worse, there are more efficient ways to do that without investing in AI.
I’ve worked with a lot of companies that have tried to implement AI and I haven’t yet come across a success story. What little wins companies do get will disappear when the sweetheart pricing inevitably ends and the companies who are now relying on their AI have to shell out big time.
It doesn't have to be AI. automation has already made a lost of jobs trivial or irrelevant, which is why we are so productive as a species and yet still do 40hr weeks.
Try searching for the theory of "bullshit jobs". It's all just patchwork to keep global capitalism based economy going in circles.
Well as long as people will be using tech monopolies products, alternatives will be underfunded and there will be AI development. No movement or article can stop it.
Replace CEOs with AI. They will be just as crazy and incompetent, but we can pay them a lot less.
I'm sure those billionaires will be crying into their money when they're finally "replaceed".
Huge comfort to the starving masses.
ah yes chatbot seller says these things will become so capable, they're gonna destroy the world, just you wait and see, but need trillion dollars in financing first. op have you eaten your daily recommended pebble today?
I'm sure after Nvidia pay themselves again though openAI we will get AGI
Who can lead us to cooperative ownership of datacenter and internet hard infrastructure? Who will organize the collective digital workforce? Who will assemble the fund?
Let the tech giants have AI & all of human knowledge. They subsidize UBI with their bubble profits. They stole everything, so seems fair?