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The problem is pushing a business model that likely seeks to put many of the graduates he’s speaking to out of a job.
Yes, the other things you say are also true, along with the tactless use of a commencement speech to advertise said business, but telling the people about how great AI is while failing to consider the effects on them is…well, very Billionaire of him.
If a machine can do my job better than me, then a machine should be doing that job. That's progress. Eventually all of this mindless toil should be done by machines so that people have the ability to pursue their dreams. The actual problem is that we've built a society where people need to toil mindlessly in order to live. This could be solved with something like a Universal Basic Income, so if my job gets taken by an LLM I can go back to school and learn a new trade. Or write some books. Or go ramble around Europe as an art bum. Or whatever.
Having said that, I think that LLMs are being used to replace jobs where the machine can't do it better than a human. It saves the company money in the short term, but it's going to catch up with them in the long term. On the other hand, some people are doing jobs that don't need doing, and replacing those with an LLM doesn't change anything, because the job was bullshit to begin with.
At the end of the day, people need food, lodging, and healthcare. They don't need "jobs". We should be fighting to get people's needs met, not fighting to keep people in their shitty jobs that they hate anyway.
Economics should be people centered not robots
We don't need machines to do everything to get that. We already have everything for a post scarcity-society. It's there now. But a lot of assholes want a bigger pile of money, and honestly, I'm pretty sure they don't actually want you or I to exist to get in the way of their utopia which is them hanging out on beaches while robots do everything for them.
On one hand, I agree with you.
On the other hand, what you're saying is, "Life would be better if we would become wholly dependent on a white supremacist, genocidal, colonial institution".
I don't think what you're suggesting is possible on the land known as the United States of America until it's no longer called that.
You're assuming everybody in this conversation is American? 🤔 I for one am not part of the "we" you describe there...
Your nation is either beholden to the imperialist pigdogs which run America or you will be targeted by them. So sorry (truly), but yes, you are "we", even if it's a more extended "we". Maybe you can fly under the radar if your country is both poor and resource-poor.
...Aside from that this is a thread about an American university, so
Your nationality or ethnicity has little to nothing to do with who is making these systems.
I completely agree with everything here, and I just want to reiterate:
👏 Universal 👏 Basic 👏 Income
Counterpoint, we don't need a society that requires universities to churn out graduates who need jobs. That's it, we have everything we need as a society already, and we are well past the post-scarcity part, but someone always wants a bigger boat.
We'll all do what we need to in order to get food, shelter, and all the basics. But we are past the point of needing a 40 hour work week, and putting people into menial positions just so they can get a paycheck.
You might as well say people shouldn’t have children.
What about my response gives you the impression that I think people shouldn't procreate?