| > The simplest definition I’ve come up with is that it’s when you see the whole world as a series of databases that can be controlled with the structured language of software code. This is sophomoric. This person is the "editor in chief" and I'm guessing that no one had the job security to tell them that this article was silly on the face of it. The title is good rage bait: "People Do Not Yearn for Automation". Obviously false, and it draws in the readers that want to say "Nuh uh!". But the meat of the article is on how the seeming disconnect between technological elites and other people has lead to them touting AI when they should consider other alternatives. This premise is shown to be dubious by a statistics in the article: > In fact, the polling on this is so strong, I think it’s fair to say that a lot of people hate AI ... > That’s with nearly two thirds of respondents saying they used ChatGPT or Copilot in the last month. So, a simple question, why are so many people using something they claim to hate? Doesn't that spark a bit of interest in the author? No? They would very much like to blame industry leaders, rather than take a more nuanced view. That said industry leaders suck. They seem to entertain magical thinking that AI will somehow replace labour. And they seem to deploy it with that end in mind. That's a stupid thing to do, but they have the money so they make the rules. But this idea that they have "software brain" is just laughable. > You can’t advertise people out of reacting to their own experiences. I beg to differ. "Stelter: Trump encourages people not to believe their eyes, ears or lungs."
https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/04/media/donald-trump-disbelief-... |