AI was supposed to win people over by now – it hasn't

10 pointsposted 8 hours ago
by speckx

7 Comments

jqpabc123

8 hours ago

What's not to love about a flawed and unreliable technology that aims to kill jobs?

b1gTekken

5 hours ago

Same thing can be said about other versions of early tech; internet services were horribly unreliable and out to kill travel agent and others jobs

Oh right I am sorry... forgot this is HN... you meant to express concern about your job replacing

My bad

jleyank

8 hours ago

You forgot - it also aims to consume lots of power and water and hardware to keep it from others. Privatize the profits, socialize the costs.

anon373839

6 hours ago

… while concentrating immensely more wealth and power in the hands of a few weird and depraved people.

alksdeef

6 hours ago

and people! (autonomous drones)

calldacopsidgaf

7 hours ago

2025 AI CEOs: "AI is gonna wipe your puny little job off the map and you better adapt or die, bitch."

2026: "OwO I'm just a wittle guy, why does everyone hate me? Trump come save us from the open models"

quickthrowman

6 hours ago

“We’re going to eliminate half of white collar jobs” is a pretty terrible sales pitch.

Sure, it gets investors all hot and bothered but for some odd reason, the average person isn’t quite as excited by the same pitch.