Jon Stewart On The False Promises of AI | The Daily Show

I am 60 years old. When computers started, I was told the work week would be reduced to 4 days a week. Today, people I know must work more hours, not less.

If they said AI can now replace all CEO's of companies so that they can run better. It would be a different tune they would be singing.

The problem with AI is not that it can do the work of employees for them It's the fact the corporation thinks it can do the employees's work for them

I was laid off from an office job in 2006 and had three years of self-actualizating me time before I could find full-time work again. You'd be surprised at how little time I spent creating art and how much time I spent worried that I'd become homeless.

"Raise prices astronomically and also fire everyone" is an extremely sound business model and there's no way this can go wrong.

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I'm reminded of the Twilight Zone episode where the manager of a factory begins introducing automation to increase production and lower costs. It ends with the entire factory automated, the entire workforce laid off, and the people who once ran the factory are too impoverished to afford anything the factory produces.

It will give us more free time to think about things like "man I'm hungry" "remember when we used to live inside" "I wish I could go to the doctor, but I don't have insurance anymore". So much free time.

I lost my job last week because of AI. I'm a translator and my bosses decided that it's better to have AI doing an ok job than an actual human even correcting it. It was never my dream job but still, a bit surreal

I got my masters in data science and to be honest this is not the type of stuff I signed up to hep produce. When I learned that AI can be used to detect biomarkers is medical data, make video games better, and improve the quality of things like computer vision, I was happy to sign up. Now there are people working on AI therapists. I hate where the world is going.