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Angelus said:

Ryuu96 said:

Nobody is saying AI won't be a big change, they're just saying it won't be as massive, world revolutionary, next stage in human evolution, as Microsoft and OpenAI are making it out to be and shit like AGI is nowhere near close to happening, if it's even possible, and I'm fully convinced even if it is possible that it won't happen in my lifetime. So I'm unconvinced investors will be willing to keep throwing tens of billions into an unprofitable venture for the next 10+ years. While morons like Sam Altman ask for hundreds of billions more.

If all we can point to right now is a bunch of stupid memes then meh. And hopefully governments will put a stop to the rampant theft and deep fake nonsense before it causes serious damage to society. AI may "improve" workflow by making millions of humans jobless (and then how does a country support millions extra unemployed?) but I really don't think that's justification for the extreme hype Microsoft/OpenAI put behind AI and when it doesn't live up to the hype is when things will backfire.

It's an extreme to say that AI will die into nothing, it's also an extreme the way that Microsoft/OpenAI/Sam Altman hype up AI. I take the stance that it's going to be a big change but not one that lives up close to the hype Microsoft/OpenAI put on it. And AI is still full of holes and dumb as shit in many areas, AGI which is the ultimate goal is nowhere close.

Microsoft is going to end up pumping $50bn+ into AI every year for the next 5-10 years, Lol.

This is a very naive take. The issue with going so heavy into AI isn't that it won't change the world in the next couple decades. The issue is that for all it's potential too do incredible things, it's also at least as likely to be an immense amplifier in human inequality, among many other potential problems. It won't take true AGI to make millions of people's jobs obsolete.

I said that it would make people jobless further down my post. But I still don't think making thousands of people jobless is equivalent to the level of immense hype that Microsoft and OpenAI are putting behind AI, and AGI is one of the things they're massively hyping up and have been hyping up for years now, remind me in 5 years when we still don't have it and they're still hyping it up to drive up excitement as a marketing gimmick.

And I would love for these capitalist companies to explain to me how making millions of people jobless helps the capitalist system they're apart of, because capitalism relies on infinite growth, which means infinite spending, once you make millions of people jobless, that becomes millions of people without an income, meaning people unable to spend on things you create, meaning no more infinite growth. So we'd need something to keep people spending, to keep the infinite growth going, something like UBI which I have zero faith most major countries will bother with, Lol. And it won't replace the full amount of lost wages.

I do think they'll be big changes, but not as world changing as Microsoft and OpenAI and that moron Sam Altman promise. And even then, it's not a guarantee that Microsoft bet on the right horse. Sam "I need $7tn" Altman. Sam "AI will make it possible for one person to build a billion dollar company very soon." Altman. Sam Altman honestly to me comes across as a major grifter, a pyramid scheme salesman and conning the shit out of Microsoft. The company is losing $5bn per year and growing, Lol. They're projected to lose $14bn this year.

Last edited by Ryuu96 - on 05 July 2025