(After teaching the first parrot to talk)
"My God, imagine the possibilities! All talking-based work will surely now be replaced by the parrot. From the telephone operator to the talk-show host, all their jobs can be done far cheaper by this miraculous bird!"
This take is the new "Russia, Russia, whatever!"
@tomw We just *happen* to have massive layoffs specifically in IT as soon as AIs demonstrate proficiency in technical and knowledge-worker tasks.
The executive and investor classes will keep making "irrational" decisions over automation as long as there is some angle that allows them to externalize the added cost. Like running healthcare really poorly and making patients pay for the result.
The kicker is there is now so much corp surveillance that they can watch us suffer in minute detail.
@tasket @tomw You are the one that made it sound like firing a bunch of tech people was an obvious response to this. Backing away from it like, "Well people do stuff for random reasons" doesn't really seem like strong evidence considering your initial claim at least appeared to rest on the idea that getting rid of your tech staff is a natural and rational response to advances in AI.
@pganssle @tomw CNet did not find ChatGPT to be immediately useful bc it took more labor to edit the resulting articles. But they wanted to replace writers anyway.
I didn't say their decisions are rational, but you're making that assumption. We're in this downward spiral bc ppl keep assuming 1) there's no class war 2) if corps aren't well-intentioned they will at least be rational and therefore predictable. Also note the OP is comfortably posting from Sweden.
You ain't in Sweden.