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[GnauzBookOfRhymes]

robots will be the only ones who can afford those cars

Lol.

Imagine an army of robots taking the automated bus to work in the morning.

 

[bnew]

It's happening: AI chatbot to replace human order-takers at Wendy's drive-thru

According to Wendy's Chief Executive Todd Penegor, the test bot will be "very conversational" and some customers might not even realize they aren't talking to a human...

www.techspot.com

https://archive.is/s3pVJ

Spoiler: larger image

 

[GnauzBookOfRhymes]

Brehs. If you go to any fast food restaurant nowadays, ordering inside is like the 18th ring of hell. I think the service is almost deliberately terrible just so ppl are clamoring for the robots lmao

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

AI could replace 80% of jobs 'in next few years': expert

Artificial intelligence could replace 80 percent of human jobs in the coming years -- but that's a good thing, says US-Brazilian researcher Ben Goertzel, a leading AI guru."You could probably obsolete maybe 80 percent of jobs that people do, without having an AGI, by my guess.

news.yahoo.com

these doom and gloom articles fail to account for what capitalism is. if 80% of the workforce is unemployed, who will be buying the flying cars, ordering your marked up door dash, purchasing yeezys etc when no one has the money to do so? companies going to replace all these workers to bring costs down and produce more goods for buyers that don't exist?

 

[NZA]

these doom and gloom articles fail to account for what capitalism is. if 80% of the workforce is unemployed, who will be buying the flying cars, ordering your marked up door dash, purchasing yeezys etc when no one has the money to do so? companies going to replace all these workers to bring costs down and produce more goods for buyers that don't exist?

judging by the climate crisis, the housing crisis, and every other widespread man-made crisis, capitalism cant correct itself before catastrophe. something outside of it has to stop it - however, capital accumulation corrupts the mechanisms in place that can stop it, so we may have no speed bumps in place by the time this is a reality.

 

[bnew]

Not only that but a capable AI has to be fed good and bad performance metrics in order to create upper and lower bounds for it to work within, that within itself will take years.

AI is a decade or more away from being able to replace any meaningful large scale jobs.

google bard response:

Large language models like GPT-4 have the potential to automate a wide range of tasks that are currently performed by humans. Some of the most significant large-scale jobs that could be automated by GPT-4 include:

• Customer service: GPT-4 could be used to create chatbots that can answer customer questions and resolve issues. This would free up human customer service representatives to focus on more complex tasks.
• Content writing: GPT-4 could be used to generate content for websites, blogs, and other publications. This would free up human writers to focus on more creative and strategic tasks.
• Data entry: GPT-4 could be used to extract data from documents and spreadsheets. This would free up human data entry clerks to focus on more complex tasks.
• Translation: GPT-4 could be used to translate text from one language to another. This would free up human translators to focus on more complex tasks.
• Research: GPT-4 could be used to research and summarize information from a variety of sources. This would free up human researchers to focus on more creative and strategic tasks.

These are just a few of the many large-scale jobs that could be automated by GPT-4. As GPT-4 continues to develop, it is likely that it will be able to automate even more tasks. This has the potential to have a significant impact on the workforce, as it could lead to the displacement of millions of jobs. However, it is also important to note that GPT-4 will also create new jobs, such as those involved in the development and maintenance of GPT-4 and other large language models.

all of this is pretty much happening now.

 

[bnew]

these doom and gloom articles fail to account for what capitalism is. if 80% of the workforce is unemployed, who will be buying the flying cars, ordering your marked up door dash, purchasing yeezys etc when no one has the money to do so? companies going to replace all these workers to bring costs down and produce more goods for buyers that don't exist?

capitalist are self-interested so they'll deflect and hope some other sucker is willing to sacrifice profits for the "good" of the whole system because it's not their job to worry about how they contribute to skyrocketing unemployment.
greed is good they said.

 

[Hood Critic]

google bard response:




all of this is pretty much happening now.

This list proves my point:

• We've had automated phone systems and web based customer service chat for years now, until call centers can wholesale be replaced by AI, this is nothing new.

• All AI generated writing requires heavy human proofing, not at all ready for prime time.

Can AI Write a Funny ‘30 Rock’ Scene?

• Data entry as a profession has been practically dead for a decade now.
• Translation is not a major industry, especially since the introduction of Google Translate
• Churning through and indexing data efficiently will hardly replace researchers. Unless researchers in this case are highschool/college students trying to write their papers quicker.

 

[JLova]

AI can only replace so many jobs before it’s a negative return for capitalism.

No one has the money to buy goods or services. If ppl can’t earn an income, they will not be buying anything.

 

[Hood Critic]

Some positive AI news for a change.

 

[bnew]

 

[Bboystyle]

they gonna blame AI for crashing the economy and save face for the real perpatrators

 

[GnauzBookOfRhymes]

The one thing I’ve said from the beginning, and the posts above touch on it a bit, is that the danger isn’t that AI will eliminate EVERY job or industry. It’s not that EVERYONE is in danger of losing their job. When people think in these maximalist ways, it makes it much more likely they will miss out on very important info/trends/dangers etc. Even if AI only endangered 10% of all jobs, and that is an incredibly low number used just for argument purposes, that is still almost 20 million people. That’s almost the entire population of Florida.

 

[bnew]

AI 'digital workers' are cutting tasks that used to take a month down to 10 minutes in New Mexico. Employees love it.

How will AI affect the workplace? New Mexico's experience with "digital workers" might point the way: less busywork, more time for what's important.

www.businessinsider.com

Sindhu Sundar May 14, 2023, 7:37 AM EDT

New Mexico is automating a number of processes and integrating AI into its workflows. The state's use of the emerging technologies could point the way to how AI will change workforces across the globe. Courtesy of the New Mexico Human Services Department.

• New Mexico uses an AI-driven chatbot to help process newborns into the Medicaid system.
• Its experience could help point the way to how AI will change workforces everywhere.
• The state employs 30 "digital workers" to tackle repetitive tasks — freeing staff for bigger things.

How will artificial intelligence change workplaces as we know them? New Mexico's experience might point the way after it's already used AI for years — turning one process that used to take up to a month into a 10-minute task.

That kind of time-saving multiplied across an entire company — or even an entire economy — offers a small glimpse into the scale of change AI could bring.

Take, for example, when a child is born in Santa Fe or Albuquerque: a complex bureaucratic machinery goes into action.

Here's how it used to work: Workers at hospitals would enroll qualified newborns into Medicaid. They would slog through paperwork to do so, physically filling out forms, and then mailing or faxing them over to New Mexico administrators. Then state caseworkers would painstakingly enter the information into a database. The process could take up to a month.

But since 2020, the state's Human Services Department has pushed into the brave new world of AI: Working with vendors including IBM and SS&C Blue Prism, the state automated the process. So now, when a child is born, their information can be quickly registered by a human using an AI-powered chatbot and then automatically ported over to the state's database. It takes about 10 minutes.

The process, nicknamed "baby bot," is deployed at 10 hospital organizations in New Mexico and in border states like Texas and Arizona. (New Mexico residents who qualify for Medicaid coverage in the state — and who live in rural areas close to the border — can get health care services in those neighboring states.) A number of birthing centers, Indian Health Service clinics, and Indian Health Service hospitals also use the "baby bot" process.

And it's just one of several tasks now performed by some 30 "digital workers" the state now uses. Together, the bots and automation are expected to save more than 100,000 human worker hours each year, the New Mexico Human Services Department told Insider.

So far, the state says those time savings haven't led to job cuts: It's just that human employees now aren't bogged down by as many busywork administrative tasks, and can instead turn their attention to bigger-picture things. And AI could end up creating some new jobs as the state looks to hire developers and other tech-savvy workers to help program and lead the AI projects.

The New Mexico Human Services Department has also been expanding its use of automation into other areas. This year, it added a new process to index returned mail — and will look to incorporate technology that functions like OpenAI's ChatGPT, said Shanita Harrison, the customer innovation director for the department.

"I think ChatGPT is cool and opens your mind to what the possibilities are," Harrison said. "We can strive to get to something that is as automated as ChatGPT. We just have to find the right use for it in the human services realm."

New Mexico of course isn't alone. ChatGPT and other generative AI tools are capturing the public consciousness and are drawing attention to ways that companies and government agencies have already been using AI tools to streamline communication and speed up tasks.

In New Mexico, "digital workers" are programmed to execute a range of tasks and are assigned times in which to complete them. But contract workers — humans — program the bots. The state is now looking to hire full-time app developers to join the agency to perform those roles, Harrison said.

"We haven't lessened our budgeted full-time employees because of the automation," she said. "We're here to serve New Mexico's residents, and we know that takes a personal touch."

New Mexico's vendors include a number of tech companies, including IBM, whose Watson Assistant provides the AI for the "baby bot" process, as well as Salesforce, and SS&C Blue Prism.

Blue Prism's technology helps take the information from the bot interaction and port it to the state's eligibility system. The process, known as robotic process automation, helps speed up structured, repetitive tasks, said Brad Hairston of SS&C Blue Prism.

"Companies have needed to automate more and more complex processes — they've needed digital workers to read invoices, or they need the digital workers to be able to work off of a prediction, or detect a pattern in the business of some sort," he said. A representative for IBM declined to comment.

Meanwhile, New Mexico also uses another process it calls the "brainy bot" to answer questions by residents enrolled in various state benefits programs, including the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, to help low-income people buy groceries.

Users can ask the bot questions specific to their case, like, "When is my SNAP renewal date?" Or they can pose general questions like, "I need help with energy assistance," Harrison said. The "brainy bot" process also uses IBM AI technology, and it's run on a Salesforce platform, she said.

Human workers are still key to administering the state's services, she said, as they're the ones who often interact with residents to help address more complex inquiries.

"If you run into trouble, and the AI is not figuring out what you want, it will connect you with a live agent," she said.

 

[eXodus]

robots will be the only ones who can afford those cars