Don't forget health insurance claims too
this post was submitted on 10 Jan 2025
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They pay people to find excuses to reject claims. Same problem, just applied to another problem.
I mean, why think so small. If any corporation or government is allowed to make decisions with AI and then handwave, "AI did it, not us" to remove responsibility, it'll just mean a future of every decision point ruled by AI slop tuned to their benefit.
Jokes on them, when there are no salaries there are no consumers, so no economy.
There's an economy - paying rent to each other until there's only one musical chair left.
Sounds like a commie agenda.
It almost is. You know they'll run to the government demanding they give out stimulus checks, UBI and the like to the population to keep consumption going.
Don't forget about military conflicts! Also good for consumption.
It’s also the latest hype technology that consumers want little to nothing to do with.
After the big AI update on iPhone, I haven’t noticed much of a difference, and I’m honestly grateful for the limited extent to which it has been thrust upon me so far.
There are definitely legitimate use cases, but for the most part, this new way of generating text is confused with actual intelligence.
You'd be surprised. There's definitely a ton of interest from consumers. Anecdotally, my wife used it to create a few quick logo ideas for her private practice (she hired a real artist for the final one), my coworkers and I use it for quick boilerplate script template creation, my immediate and extended family have all used it to modify/clean up family pictures, friends have used it in group chats for all sorts of things, etc etc. There's a reason that it's being implemented everywhere, and it's not simply because there's no consumer interest and it's all corporate hype buzz. Just because you specifically aren't interested doesn't nullify the tens of millions of people using the various flavors of ChatGPT, Gemini, and/or whatever the hell Amazon's is every day.
But yes, it is not real intelligence. I don't think I've talked to anyone who truly believes it is. It's just a new, highly versatile tool. Hell, I just saw a video of some jackass on YouTube programming a robotic arm to be controlled by ChatGPT and it had a rifle mounted to the arm. Using voice commands, ChatGPT was able to aim and shoot the rifle with crazy precision and speed: https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/s/popAFs2kmY
I'm not sure why you're being downvoted stating facts, what is this reddit. There's massive interest. https://fortune.com/2025/01/07/sam-altman-openai-chatgpt-pro-subscription-losing-money-tech/#:~:text=The%20company%20has%20projected%20that,power%20used%20to%20run%20ChatGPT.
There's interest as long as they don't charge the full value of the product.
What if it wasn't $200/mo? What if people had to actually pay the cost?
Would argue its about control too.
When you control the flow of information, you control how people will use that information.
Which is funny, because even by that metric it doesn't work since they're hiring people to moderate the training data and output
A) expenses for that are pittens compared what may be saved in wages later on.
B) First gen of GenAI products, so development still very much ongoing. Of course more RnD is needed, which always costs money. Was the same with pretty much very product we can by today. Nobody in their right mind would expect the first shot to be the final product.
That being said, some ten twenty years from now though...
In fairness, AI has radically improved my personal productivity.
I can make an instructional video for an internal task, use STT to transcribe the audio and then have AI organize my dictation into instructions. Is it perfect? Absolutely not, but it does about 85% of the job and saves me a ton of time organizing and formatting.
Additionally, it is very good for other menial tasks. I needed a comma separated list of in time format 00:00, incrementing by 30 second intervals, up to 50 minutes. Time math and formulas are weird, having it create that saved me a lot of key strokes.
Could humans do these things? Sure, but it's not an efficient use of time! When I need it done, I need it immediately; and I don't need someone on staff for these random tasks as they aren't remotely frequent enough to offer anyone a semblance of consistent employment.
I'm pretty sure AI will figure out that no wages = no buying = no sales = no profits. The leopards will eat their own faces.
Fewer people working should be intrinsically positive.
The tech is not what's wrong here.
Not trying to defend the AI hype train here, but isn't this the case for basically every new technology: steam engines replaced muscle labor, computers replaced people doing the calculations, the internet replaced many different occupation.
And for the most part we are better off now. Calling someone in a different country, let alone on another continent was crazy expensive just a few decades ago. Lemmy is built on these technology and would not be possible if all had to be done by human labor (a literal mailing list?).
Having said that I think the main issue with AI (LLMs) or the internet at the moment is regulation or the lack of it.
Some companies have already their own powerplants, then they can acquire some primary production and then finally they can be their own state and play King without subjects.