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by mindwok 466 days ago
AI is supposed to free us of menial labour and give us the future of our dreams and instead I’m getting targeted ads for McFlurries. God damnit.
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So far the only jobs AI seems to be trying to take are the 'good' ones. Creativity, analysis, programming. Sure there's the dream that people in all 3 groups will just leverage it to do more and better, but most of the impact so far has been management openly extatic at all the people they can fire/pressure/not hire. Not the revolution I was looking for so far. And that's before taking the new horizons for disinformation and harassment into account.
There are some who dream of McFlurries. So maybe it is giving us the stuff of their dreams?
Then you wake up and find out the ice cream machine "is down."

Let me know when AI fixes THAT problem...

Well the article talks about this. Ai monitors the machinery in the restaurant and warns when something is about to fail.

The first thing I thought of was the ai minimizing mcflurry machine downtime.

Good one.