• WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world
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      17 days ago

      That’s the entire point of capitalism. To generate as much profit from as little expense as possible. Unfortunately capitalism is predicated on a human workforce earning income to pay for goods and services, so at some point the economic engine will shutdown and capitalism will have killed capitalism. Either way, once the level of robotics + dumb AI is more cost effective than the available workforce in any role, that role will be eliminated. Once general AI is achieved and (especially once) the robots can build and repair themselves, the proles will either get star trek or whoever commands the killbots (including an AI) will rule humanity and inherit civilization.

      NOTE: could happen at any time, but my bet’s on it not happening for many decades; possibly not for hundreds or thousands of years.

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      17 days ago

      If your entire workforce is ai and you don’t have any humans then how do humans who don’t have a job pay for your product?

      The entire concept of replacing the workforce with AI falls apart when you spend more than 2 seconds thinking about it. Only way it would work is if we actually got rid of the entire concept of money.

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        17 days ago

        They’re not thinking that far ahead. They’re thinking “how can I make the lines go up this quarter?”

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        17 days ago

        Corps have been complaining for years already that people aren’t buying enough. Millenials are killing this industry and that industry because we don’t consume enough - “enough” being whatever level they’ve decided we should consume. They feel entitled to our dollars, whether or not their product or service is any good.

        If they were smart, companies would lower prices to be more competitive and incentivize people to buy more. Instead they’ve doubled down and posted armed guards at the store exits to intimidate the customers they have left. They’ve slipped data collection into every interaction. It’s pretty obvious they’re not playing the long game anymore.

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      15 days ago

      No it isn’t. It’s the entire point of some (well, many) modern AI companies, granted. But “the entire point of AI”? absolutely not.