This is marketing, playing up the fear a little bit like this makes his product sound more powerful and valuable.
Personally I think that’s the only way to avoid the “everyone being homeless and jobless” scenario we’ve all been describing.
If Microsoft have cheap labor from bots, and you do too, it levels the playing field dramatically. You won’t have to pay money for access to similar capabilities
The Luddite’s were angry because they were replaced by machines they couldn’t afford to own themselves and profit from. With open source machines, this doesn’t happen. We all have machines and then we all have more equal opportunity.
I feel like I've had a similar conversation when I was talking to someone arguing that the 2nd amendment was imperative for citizens to defend themselves against the government. Like bro, how is your shotgun winning against an aircraft carrier.
For all other kinds of wars, yes, the government can crush you. That was true even in the 1700s, and has only gotten more true today.
The means of production is both the software AND the hardware.
So we have to assume you’ll be able to run them on much more efficient hardware soon.
Anyway, I’m not necessarily talking about individuals running their own, but groups of people.
No, people, with all their diverse backgrounds, expertise and ingenuity will come together and build what's required for their survival and because of open source technology, they will also have access to the same advanced AI systems as M$.
If someone's job is eliminated because they were replaced by a bot, how does having their own bot help them? They're still out of work.
Or are you suggesting that everyone in the future will have to become AI engineers?
I'm not being argumentative here. I'm not understanding, and want to understand how this would be applied to help people in that position.
The only way I can think is if the solution is that they will all be AI operators, in which case the solution on offer is another variant of "retraining" -- but not everyone will be suitable for that sort of work. But that doesn't sound right, so I think I'm not understanding.