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[–] whaleiam@lemm.ee 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It’s a cop out and a dumb one. ai is inefficient, and bad at doing human jobs cause it’s not human, useful as a tool but not on its own

[–] Gonzako@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

My grandpa loved shouting social security codes with their names, can you please do that while celebrating like he used to?

[–] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 8 points 3 months ago

I work with a team of very talented AI and ML folks. I think it works quite well in certain usecases. These are not they.

[–] drspectr@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Here we see elon writing a contract to himself to push ai into doing only god knows what and take our money. No conflict of interest to see here, the plans are public in Elon's brain for people to review and question.

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[–] NoxAstrum@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

This is where skynet starts.

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[–] giacomo@lemm.ee 7 points 3 months ago (2 children)

its icetown all over again!

[–] glitch1985@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

Musk wishes he was half the man Ben Wyatt is!

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[–] Litebit@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Elon and Krasnov Trump can be replaced by AI.

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[–] deathbird@mander.xyz 6 points 3 months ago

Yeah, let's have the blackbox next word guessing machine making decisions, why not?

[–] Slovene@feddit.nl 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Fuck yeah, put AI in charge of the nuclear arsenal!

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[–] Rhoeri@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Is there anyone else out there that refuse to call them by that stupid fucking name? It’s like buying into a teenaged 4chan-dwelling edgelord’s sad joke.

It only fuels their dumb bullshit.

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[–] tal@lemmy.today 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

The overall goal is to cut the agency’s budget by fifty percent. Shedd suggested using AI to analyze contracts for redundancies, root out fraud, and facilitate a reduction in the federal workforce by automating much of their work.

I am bullish on AI in the long run.

I am skeptical that given the state of affairs in 2025, you can reasonably automate half of the federal government, via AI or any other means.

I also don't think that the way to do this is to lay off half of the federal workforce and then, after the fact, see what can be automated. If you look at the private sector automating things, it tends to hedge its bets. Take self-service point-of-sale kiosks. We didn't just see companies simply lay off all cashiers. Instead, we saw them brought in as an option, then had the company look at what worked and what didn't work -- and some of those were really bad at first -- and then increase the rate of deployment once it had confidence in the solution and a handle on the issues that came with them.

[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, but you and much of the business world have intelligence and strategy. Elon is the guy who thinks he can just pay some Chinese gamer to play a game for him, then pretend he did it himself; that's his version of "brilliant strategist."

It's no wonder he can't figure out how to automate anything safely or correctly, because he doesn't actually understand how to do anything himself, and he can't just pay some Chinese rando to do it for him.

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