Thread by @MePeterNicholls

Since the introduction of generative AI for image and music and video and some extent language models too, it is really dumb down and amplified ignorance about the entire field of machine learning and artificial intelligence to an extent where you can’t have a decent discussion!

I absolutely agree that AI should not be replacing a single person in creative industries. However, it is undeniable to all sorts of kinds of AI tools are exceptionally useful to people in creative industries they’ve been used for years and are being used and will be used.

The National Grid is using AI to help with its management and planning, and how uses renewable resources. Medicine researchers are using AI to help them find new medications and compounds engineering are finding how to make efficiencies and new solutions using AI.

Language models are also extremely useful. Not for creating new works of literature. That’s absolutely ridiculous pointless use in my opinion but forgetting through large amounts of data both texture and otherwise save so much TDS work

Tedious*. We created business computers so that we could get rid of the tedious work of the back office accounts administration. Lions Tea houses in the UK Pioneered this approach after the Second World War. I don’t think there’s a single person who’d love to go back to before

Sure all forms of technology and automation have displaced jobs. And yes a lot of AI automation is very different to the types of automation we’ve had before in many ways. Whilst it’s true that there will be people who dominate the space and technology (Who will need regulating

And Taxing so that the wealth isn’t dominated by a few small players hoarding all wealth), creating AI has never been easier and more widely available to anyone with a half decent computer. I’m talking about training and running on your own computer.

Open source language models and other types of models are available download and run on all almost every day hardware. And using simple tools can be extended or used to orchestrate other local AI models.

The only limit is the imagination. In terms of jobs, yeah we need to share the wealth that is inevitably going to be concentrated further up the chain. We need to agree that as a society that those who controlled the technology should fairly compensate society.

This means yes, universal unconditional minimum income. “ but some people won’t want to work” yes. And in a world where the refer jobs then perhaps that’s actually not a bad thing at all is it? Most people will use that time to do all manner of remarkable things.

Other people may use that time to do nothing and well that’s their loss. But we will start to put a lot more value on jobs that care for people. Higher value on real creativity. Hire Valley on just spending time with family and friends. Volunteering gardening and making things.

Doing all the things that hundreds of years ago aristocracy used to do. Paint drawer poetry Music philosophy. Tinkerers can tinker; experimenters can experiment; engineers can try anything. We need to imagine life without mandated capitalist wage slave labour.

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