"We use AI to optimise our early-stage iterations"
"AI is great for generating initial concepts. Here are some of ourfavourites, and some that didn't turn out so well!"
"Did you know AI can reduce our turnaround for clients by up to 50%?"
In other words: it'll help. It won't replace you.
Society just needs to accept a whole of our social truism is politically correct LARP to the drum beat of a financiers profit memes. What are a bunch of rich elders going to do if billions quit dancing like jesters for coin? Fight us from their far off estates?
800k sworn LEO in the US working for a paycheck, not fealty to a billionaire. The public has all the advantage but isn’t allowed to know it. Communal health is the future of work whether outsider financiers accept or not. We’ll just flood the inter tubes with AI media and crash the value of their copyright constraint system if they don’t like it. I have zero obligation to do-nothing daddy deep pockets who can point to a contract I wasn’t a party to. I don’t believe such people are worth coddling with my agency.
Which would you pick? Keep in mind you don't have to go through the headache of actually hiring people - all you need to do is not fire them.
I’m using AI to aid development of a game engine with a baked in model to replicate and help the user evolve the game world style, and rules, to their curiosity and tastes. Games will be even easier since familiar experiences are heavily constrained through painstaking play test. Game world generation parameters are finite. Even the art work we appreciate most is often constrained to a handful of style patterns; consider how flat web design was suddenly everywhere with only colors differing. Whole lot of the same goes into game asset production.
Gabe Newell called content creating AI an extinction level event for multimedia business. Of course politics as usual will be leveraged to create private monopoly of such technology unless open sourced.
Our best bet is such software is open source and thus aristocrats cannot lock it up behind artificial scarcity and copyright maximalism.
It’s funny to me that even here in HN people don’t get this at all. They fall behind simple truisms “automation only increases jobs”. It’s almost as if they’ve forgotten Trump got elected because vast swathes of America were deindustrialised and that led to a collapse to the quality of life in those regions.
On research that I’ve read, automation has definitely decreased the number of industrial jobs in America. Those people, some in large numbers, never found other jobs that were as well paying.
But like David Simon always says “American distopia doesn’t sell in America”.
Whether they're worth taking Vs doing something more similar to your current job but for a bit less money is an individual's choice, of course.
New histories of the period think of it as potentially as one of the few times we know where there was an enormous economic boom alongside a general collapse of quality of life.
Ir could be we are looking at something similar at the moment with the digital revolution.
Yes eventually we all retrain and the effect will be nil, but in the in-between time, a lot of people might suffer immensely.
We're talking about things that can be eased into, by white collar workers. And the numbers affected are nothing like the industrial revolution's either.
Driving seems like a tough nut to crack, but what if we suddenly start obliterating multiple areas of human employment one after the other? Ones we haven’t even thought of?