[overgard]

I saw a quote today that resonated with me:

"The underlying purpose of AI is to allow wealth to access skill while removing from the skilled the ability to access wealth. --@jeffowski"

While I don't think that's the only purpose, I can't help but think that people that become dependent on these tools will have neither wealth nor skill. Keep your skills sharp!

[floatrock]

That just sounds like "controlling the means of production" with more clever wordplay.

[overgard]

Not really. The "means of production" in software has basically been free (other than the cost of a computer) for like 20+ years.

[ragall]

In software, the means of production are people, the developers. It's reproduction, not production that has become basically free.

[nh23423fefe]

Nonsensical word salad desperate to critique wealth.

[overgard]

I don't see what's non-sensical. The point of this technology, to many of the super wealthy, is to commoditize white collar skills and drive the price to zero. They're not really coy about this, if anything they won't stop talking about it. They couch it in language about being "afraid", but if they truly were they'd take steps to reduce harm - which they're not doing. The silver lining I guess is most of them don't actually understand the things they're trying to replace so they don't realize how far off they are.

[trcf23]

Yet most people seem to agree that AI favours skilled dev more than unskilled ones...

[overgard]

Look at the marketing. It's focused on unskilled people.

[simianwords]

Same thing can be said about it a personal computer