The promises made at the c-suite levels of many (all) industries to use AI to replace workers is the biggest driver here. But anyone who is paying attention can see this shit is not going to work correctly. So it’s a race to get it deployed, get the quarterly earnings and bail with the golden parachute before this hits the fan and this deficient AI ruins hundreds of industries. So many jobs will be lost for no reason and so many companies will be forced to rebuild, if they can. Or just go under and the big guys will take over their share of the market. So yeah this is all pretty fucked. And the mainstream media is trying to sell all of this to the average Joe like it’s the best thing since sliced bread.

Then there’s nvidia and the VCs. It’s almost like dot com 1.0 all over again.

[–] TurtleJoe@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

Yes, and add a little bit of cold war style paranoia in there as well. These companies know that their product doesn't work very well, but they think their competitor is maybe right on the verge of a breakthrough, so they rush to deploy and capture market share, lest they get left completely behind.

[–] Ranger@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

They're also putting it in control of autonomous weapons systems. Who is responsible when the autonomous AI drone bombs a children's hospital? Is it noone? Is noone responsible?

[–] porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

That's a feature not a bug.