alt Hacker NewsI like this article, but it took decades for cars to take over: we needed to build vehicles, build roads, build up gas production and distribution... as Bill Gates wrote, one of the differences with the AI disruption is how fast it's coming, since it's almost immaterial (except data centers of course). It may be too fast for humans to adapt like they did in the previous revolutions.
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parpfish • today at 1:51 PM
Unfortunately, work from home made it easy for companies to realize how easily a chat window could fulfill employee interactions
phoronixrly • today at 1:49 PM
And it threatens not a single profession, but all people doing intellectual work.
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The current trend of comparing AI development to the development of motorised personal transport makes it very easy to remind everyone that undoing the effects of decades of blind "progress" once the negative externalities become unavoidable is much easier said than done.