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It feels like we’re on the brink of something (beehaw.org)

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Covid, WFH, Musk, The fall of Twitter, Netflix plateau, Reddit Blackout, Crippling interest rates, Trump, Decentralisation, Tech Antitrust, Ukraine

Adding in Edit: AI, Climate Crisis, Nazis, Fascism, Democratic backsliding, automation, mass unemployment, rising homelessness, wild fires

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

This argument applied to computers back when they took up entire rooms. Now we have much better ones in our pockets.

AI will get cheaper and more accessible. In other words, it will be democratized.

Now, if we are able to mix AI with robots to automate more manual tasks previously done by humans? Yeah that will cause some unemployment.