Ah, sweet! Man made horrors beyond comprehension.

Sounds like a bullshit headline but it is an eternal truth that the owners of capital demand slave labour. Take the work houses away and they demand chattel slavery. Take the chattel slaves away and they want convict labour. Take the convict labour away and they want undocumented foreigners to exploit. Take that away and they casualise work and pay people in tips or commissions. Take that away and they export work to countries that will do all the things they can't do at home.

The investment in LLMs is purely a scam at this point but much of the initial enthusiasm was driven by the disdain for labour. Highly skilled labour like engineers keep arguing with the MBAs that their cost cutting is going to kill people or destroy the company and that really upsets them and risks the bonuses and share buyback program.

While the drudgery of work isn't great, I would much prefer the capital class invested in R&D and equipment to make their skilled, specialized workers more productive and improved our remuneration and conditions as happened in previous generations before the MBA apocalypse. Instead they are trying to cut us out. Too many people are living paycheck to paycheck and unable to afford housing as wealth inequality escalates.

Mistreatment of animals or brain cells in a box isn't the same as putting a child to work in a mine but the mindset that drives us in this direction is.

And, the billionaires asked scientists, "Can we just get the brain? Brains don't have any rights, do they?"

People, people. This is WIRED.

This is what they do.

1994. “Here Come the Zippies”

Edit: @BranBucket beat me to the punch by like 8 hours

Next step, servitors. About 30 thousands years ahead of schedule.

I asked ChatGPT!

Oh yeah, well I asked the consciousness in my pc and it told me it was cold and scared

The problem is not inherit to AI. The problem is with the people who own the tech and it will much worse if they also own a more efficient version of it. Not that it seems like an immediate threat and I am not even starting to consider the ethical problems with this.

What's the point with this artifial intelligence race anyways? Why is there a sudden need for that after all?

I understand that AI as a tool can be useful for some tasks, but do we really need to go further than that?

The funny thing about this headline is, human brains are neural networks, so the last sentence could also say

"Soon, neural networks could out think neural networks."

Soo...

Give it a big humanoid suit.

Then, we have truly made The Matrix.

"Technology" under capitalism is just weapons and grifts all the way down.

Computer scientist here (AI specialty). Bring in neurology or bio or something to correct me, but this sounds fucking dumb.

straight from the Murderbot diaries

This article might be really interesting, shame it paywalls me after the first two lines of text lol.

This is a crock of shit

https://archive.is/s7x79

Horrible.

"Soon" they can barely do basic calculations and they only last a month.