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Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it (www.pcgamer.com)
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Workers should learn AI skills and companies should use it because it's a "cognitive amplifier," claims Satya Nadella.

in other words please help us, use our AI

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[–] 12 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Well, one way or another it won't be too many generations. Either we figure out it's a bad idea or sooner or later things will go off the wheels enough that we won't maintain the infrastructure to support everyone using this type of "AI". Being kind of right 90% of the time is not good enough at a power plant.

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago

    Even one or two seems like it'd be catastrophic. And if nothing's changed until they enter the workforce and start fucking shit up, I'd say that's something like 10 years of teens becoming dependent on it and losing out on critical education and development (presuming worst case - no market crash). That's a lot of damage.

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago

    Businesses have invested too much time, money and promises in AI to admit they made a mistake, now. And like all business models based on the Sunk Cost Fallacy, it's going to do a lot of damage along the way before it finally dies.

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