The original saboteurs threw their sabots (heavy shoes) into the machines of what became the industrial revolution that lifted much of the world from feudalism and subsistence farming to the point where you're able to read this post on a device supported by a global information network.
With AI and robotics advances poised to make an equally large impact, what is your sabot, and would you stand in the way by throwing it?
Please share your reasons.
@Pungent @stuartblair To make into paperclips.
@stuartblair I tell people that AI is currently functioning by stealing and mangling other people's work, and it is controlled by business interests that intend to enrich themselves by doing things that harm us.
If AI is under the reins of people who use it responsibly, for the betterment of humanity, with work that is in the commons, rather than stolen, I don't have a shoe I want to throw.
I try to limit my contact with it, unless I know who it talks to and what about.
@stuartblair I also encourage artists and creatives to use the tools that poison their work to AI.
@stuartblair
Reminds me of the ST TOS episode The Changeling. The sabot was to confuse Nomad about his merged programming, ultimately to self-destruct. (Everything I learned was from Star Trek).
Understanding the real threat generative AI poses to our jobs.
There will be no robot jobs apocalypse, but there's still plenty to worry about. How *will* generative AI impact our jobs?
Brian Merchant
https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/understanding-the-real-threat-generative
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@stuartblair
I dunno, that's like throwing a wooden shoe in a machine built for the purpose of consuming wooden shoes for fuel.