p.2 #4 · Using Artificial Intelligence like ChatGPT to inform your purchase decsions - warning
gdanmitchell wrote:
What happens to regular people if the worst fantasies of the AI tech bros are achieved is a serious question.
I’m mainly thinking of employment. If “they” can replace human workers — taxi drivers, computer programmers, help line agents, grocery store checkers, and the list goes on — who will be left with a sufficient income to buy the products and services that the AI people will sell or product?
If the logical endpoint of all of this is to replace as many jobs as possible, humanity is in for a very tough ride.
I believe we still have several more quarters to go that we can extract profits from before we get to that point and by then I'll be floating down on my golden parachute. - AI CEO
p.2 #5 · Using Artificial Intelligence like ChatGPT to inform your purchase decsions - warning
GroovyGeek wrote:
But they suck when they have to make decisions in gray areas. Which is what product recommendations are. What is shocking to me is that plenty of smart people think we will soon trust them to make hotel and restaurant reservations and buy plane tickets unsupervised. Supposedly having full access to our information will make them better.
By 2027, I can book a mountain ski vacation in Austria, and my flight will be to Australia and my hotel will be in Austin!
p.2 #6 · Using Artificial Intelligence like ChatGPT to inform your purchase decsions - warning
gdanmitchell wrote:
I worry a lot about the use of AI tools for things like screening job applicants, etc.
That's already out there and more is coming soon. And in this case, the AI could be the result of data scientists utilizing machine learning to extract insights out of resumes and candidate profiles -- which in of itself can be problematic and opaque, but when yiu use GenAI, that's even more horrible and more opaque.
p.2 #7 · Using Artificial Intelligence like ChatGPT to inform your purchase decsions - warning
Given how AI is being used for ever more sophisticated hacking and phishing scams, I really don't see the benefit of keeping my personal and financial information at some type of centralized AI Agent Service for it to be hacked and abused. Now if it evolves to a AI agent that runs on your laptop only, and does so in a responsible, safe and secure manner (no, I don't count OpenClaw as fitting these prerequisites) then perhaps it could be worth exploring further. I am surely not going to be the Guinea pig.
