Topic: Open AI CEO says his tech is poised to "break capitalism" (Read 150 times)

We can also say that in many countries (in Africa, South America, Eastern and Southern Europe, or Asia) human workers could cost much less than artificial intelligence licenses. I think Hispo is right, even if technology is progressing, we are far from seeing it do our work for us in a completely independent way. 50% of unemployed people in the tech industry seems big to me.

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AGI (artificial general intelligence) maximalists claim their technology carries a potential to eliminate many skilled labor jobs in tech industries.
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Havent you watched Black panther? Pretty much science in that movie is basically calculated by AI and humans are only creating whatever the AI calculated. Yeah I know its just a movie but basically the world as we speak will always head to the future so there isnt 0 possibility that we might not be heading to a future where everything will be generated and designed by AI

If so, how does it actually break capitalism? On the contrary, it actually reinforces capitalism. It boosts capitalism. If huge companies in the future would no longer hire human beings for manual labor and other skilled jobs, it doesn't put capitalism in a disadvantageous position; it actually drives it forward.

Well, well, another communist billionaire who would have us believe that he is describing reality when what he is doing is projecting his desires onto it.

To be a pedigree communist you have to have a lot of money, like Marx, who was a posh who never worked in his life and spent his time lecturing others about work.


It doesn't.


Shut up, come on! How can you think of telling that to the communist billionaire and all the socialists that swarm the forum? Anything other than thinking that we are getting worse and worse because of capitalism does not enter their heads.

If so, how does it actually break capitalism?

On the contrary, it actually reinforces capitalism. It boosts capitalism. If huge companies in the future would no longer hire human beings for manual labor and other skilled jobs, it doesn't put capitalism in a disadvantageous position; it actually drives it forward.

Also, technology eliminating some jobs doesn't mean people are losing job opportunities. Technologies open a whole new set of possibilities that still need people.

Havent you watched Black panther? Pretty much science in that movie is basically calculated by AI and humans are only creating whatever the AI calculated. Yeah I know its just a movie but basically the world as we speak will always head to the future so there isnt 0 possibility that we might not be heading to a future where everything will be generated and designed by AI

AGI (artificial general intelligence) maximalists claim their technology carries a potential to eliminate many skilled labor jobs in tech industries.

Given the massive leap in technology from home PCs 20 years ago with 64 megabytes of RAM and 300 megahertz CPUs leading to the present. Its difficult to imagine or predict how much technology can advance within a relatively short span of time.

Past studies have claimed as much as 50% of skilled labor in tech industries might be vulnerable to automation:

It sounds too much, one thing is letting a machine to face costumers in a Macdonalds but it is very different letting a machine to do science by itself.

Marx's Revenge

In what's perhaps an attempt to head off bad press — or, at very least, convince people he's not the bad guy — OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has given Forbes an interview in which he claims that his for-profit company is ultimately going to bring about capitalism's downfall.

First, some context. Altman, who is also the president of the uber-influential Y Combinator startup incubator, is one of only OG OpenAI cofounders still standing. The company's decision to go from more of a research vehicle to a for-profit venture in 2019 was somewhat overshadowed by his fellow cofounder Elon Musk's decision to leave the firm — over some seemingly huge disagreements about its direction.

The CEO behind the record-breaking ChatGPT has a bit of a strange background, the TL;DR of which being that he once admitted to being a doomsday prepper who believes that killer artificial intelligence or a lab-modified virus could bring about the end of days.

Much of the OpenAI CEO's rhetoric in his recent Forbes exclusive hinges on the future — the future of the company, of course, but also on the future of AI in general, and how Altman believes it will dovetail with sentient AIs, otherwise known as artificial general intelligence (AGI).

Anxious General Intelligence

While Altman doesn't think we're that close to AIs gaining consciousness — a belief that's not quite shared by fellow OG OpenAI-er Ilya Sutskever — he did tell Forbes that creating AGI is "the thrust that drives all my actions" and, it seems, his raison d'etre for the firm.

In one exchange, Forbes' Alex Konrad noted the inherent tension regarding capitalism that's found between OpenAI's "research-driven" foundation and the buckets of money investors have put into it. Altman had a provocative response.

"I think capitalism is awesome. I love capitalism," he told Forbes. "Of all of the bad systems the world has, it's the best one — or the least bad one we found so far. I hope we find a way better one."

"I think that if AGI really truly fully happens," he continued, "I can imagine all these ways that it breaks capitalism."

If you're confused by this response, you're not alone. But then again, OpenAI itself was founded to head off the worst outcomes of AGI and is now apparently gunning to make it a reality — so confusion is, it seems, the most rational response to that revelation.

https://futurism.com/the-byte/openai-ceo-agi-break-capitalism