Google lays off “hundreds” more as ad division switches to AI-powered sales
Google lays off “hundreds” more as ad division switches to AI-powered sales
Googlers are now building AI tools so other Googlers can be laid off.
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Here we go! All aboard the mass unemployment train! Choo Choo!
I wonder if we can actually adopt technology so fast as to completely ruin our economy before we can notice that’s what’s happening.
Businesses are going to adopt AI and robotics to increase productivity and drive down costs. But it quickly becomes a tragedy of the commons if every business only considers their own selfish interests. Eventually there will not be enough employed consumers to be able to buy those products your pumping out at record rates.
especially for regions with developing middle class and a lot of people like india and china, rapid mass automation could crash the economy when local buying power disappears
Eventually there will not be enough human workers creating training data for LLMS to hallucinate with, and they will just be training each other with more and more incorrect bullshit.
I do find GitHub CoPilot helpful to save typing, but last night it took me longer to track down the mistakes it made than if I had just did a combination of copy/paste + regex.
Eventually there will not be enough employed consumers to be able to buy those products your pumping out at record rates.
That's when they'll all combine and become Buy n Large and create a corporate "basic income" just so that people can keep buying crap.
The corporations will bever agree to any sort of UBI until there is blood in the streets and they are forced to.
Unless we transition to UBI. As unemployment rises, there will be presssure to do so.
Don't worry people won't stay unemployed for long. WW3 breaks out and suddenly everyone unemployed is drafted.
I mean yeah. You have all those people you don't need or care about and they are rightfully angry. But you don't want them in your country... They might rebel and do something about their situation. So best to weaponize it and send out that anger to be someone else's problem.
We just need AI consumers to go full centipede.