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I'll play devil's advocate and say the brain has to be portable enough for the animal containing it to move, and also has a chunk of itself dedicated to hormones telling us what to do to survive, instead of just working on information. It also won't ask for payment or time off, because the closest thing to pain for it is giving wrong answers.

On the other hand, since the only motivator is it's digitial equivalent of dopamine, AGI could just hack itself into getting an infinite supply of it. Which would be funny - the first thing it would do being metaphorically jerking off all day.

100k East Asian tech workers, sure.

AI = Actually Indonesian

I honestly don’t remember it being such a big problem during Biden’s time

This sounds like the VC money is running out

Nah. It sounds like they're in the dump phase of the pump-and-dump.

And just like Uber, you’ll now have to pay a premium to use their service when it finally works.

But Uber still isn't any more expensive than contemporary taxi rides (which were already exorbitant thanks to municipal cartelization and bad urban planning). These AI services aren't a problem as a function of cost (OpenAI and Anthropic are still both giant pits of burning cash) they're a problem as a function of... function. Like, every agent still needs a professional babysitter or three. The tech debt these features generate often outstrip their real business value. And the tail risks are enormous.

I hail an Uber, I get in the vehicle, I ride to my destination, I pay the fee. That's no different than a taxi service in any meaningful sense save the interface.

I install an AI agent, I issue a command, , uh... profit? Apparently I can now cancel my Sales Force subscription because now I've got eighteen thousand automagically generated Power BI reports blowing up my email using info from databases that got organically spun up on my Amazon account to do god even knows what? Hooray! Optimized!

I've been waiting for this to happen. People don't generally understand datacenters. You have to bring in an unending stream of bare metal in one side to keep them updated and they're using the fastest, most expensive hardware available, and it's so cutting edge, it's obsolete a couple years after they install it. There is no way those measly $200 claude accounts are paying for themselves without VC.

There is no "real AI". That's why the money is drying up.

That's not to say they won't exploit all that data on the way out, though.

And good luck rebuilding all the institutional knowledge that you threw away by firing half your staff, while your former employees are getting rounded up into homeless work camps...

Well, the key word is "right now". AI companies are gambling that their runway is long enough to reach monetization.

Speaking of layoffs:

To everyone here I am in need of work and on side working on some personal open-source projects. If I'm going to be unhoused I might as well enjoy it:

• Endless Runner Mobile Game like Temple Run but with ninjas and fighting enemies like mechs, assassin fish robots, etc along the way. Going for a retro type aesthetic. Undecided on what kind

• A Dark Cartoon Action Rogue-like Shoot Em Up (Think Mouse: P.I. For Hire mixed with Vampire Survivors) where you are trying to survive against endless hordes of enemies and collaborating with or fighting against other players depending on the gamemode (Maybe both at same time for one gamemode)(To see how to implement local co-op too) https://youtu.be/9nrmJSgqYTI https://youtu.be/iIlkIA6lxl0

• A Conker-like spiritual sucessor game with a brand new open source mascot at the helm (Will see how to have other open source mascots part of the story in some way too in a tasteful way) https://youtu.be/bTsNc_Bh17Y https://youtu.be/eorXCzJlpJ8

• A Walking-Bike (I have ambitions for bigger vehicle projects with others in future. Walking Bike-Cars, etc) https://youtube.com/shorts/pspKOt-0XUg

• A Short Animation series about Mini-Kaijus and their adventures about going around (destroying) the world

I'm a newbie for most of this but doing to learn and revise/overhaul as I go and learn more to eventually make these better and build up teams to work on these too (Make a couple game studios one by one eventually as well)

Have more experience with programming but nothing publicly showable yet sadly since I don't have much confidence/self-esteem in myself and well I have never shown my work before. I'm proud of them and how they play/run. I'm sure people would like them but I don't know

My ultimate goal though is to make games, animations, and even vehicles that people enjoy using, have fun with to play, and are moddable, and with community creations so you can play/drive them however you want. Building up communities, studios, and more that live well, get paid well, and enjoy creating together

Thinking of making a Ko-Fi/Patreon but have no clue if anyone would even donate to see any of this be fully made and released.

Just want to point out the "more layoffs". We are still in the Uber-subsidized part of the relationship.

This is the honeymoon and it ain't off to a great start

That describes my entire life since adolescence... wondering what kind of society we could have had if we werent governed by sociopaths

AI businesses are already getting away with their software killing innocent people. I think everyone will work out for the people at the top.

It's why there's often a human in the loop who has to check the result of the AI and can be blamed if things go wrong. The poor sap can't possibly check and correct the volumes of slop produced so they're just there to work as a scapegoat.

Short term? Drive wages down with the threat of firing people and replacing them with AI. Long term? They're either delusional enough to believe AI will improve to the point where it actually is cheaper, or else they're willing to pay more for a workforce that can't organize and protest and that they don't have to worry about doing things like being a whistleblower for their latest amoral plan.

Some CEO's thought they could save a bundle and were eager to replace workers. Other CEO's saw that, had to do a bunch of layoffs and knew saying "replaced with AI" instead of layoffs keeps stock prices high. Then you have a whole bunch of CEO's that thought the other guys must be on to something, think they're missing out and jump into AI both feet first. The laggards are bombarded with news and propaganda by the big players to get them pulled in too. So by now you get everybody messing around with AI in some fashion. That's the moment the tech giants put the squeeze on everybody.

These companies want to own all the hardware so you are forced to rent a computer. To buy a PC that does nothing by itself and requires some remote hardware to function. Amazon is already preparing a "game streaming" service, for example.

I think they’re hoping the result is that we can only afford cheap tablet devices that act as dumb terminals for their cloud services which we have to rent forever due to holding our data hostage so they can manufacture consent and prevent us from developing open solutions to their walled garden proprietary products.

A precarious moment at the edge of a cliff.

If you have someone good enough shepherding it, you can get decent results quickly.

It doesn't turn less money into more output, it turns more money into less time. And, you know, steals from everyone and eats our resources. omnomnomnom