Nobody, including me, is trying to stop technological progress. The point is that common people will not be benefiting from advances as much as they should be, as long as we live in this unregulated capitalist society where the capitalist class reaps all the rewards.

If working people had been rewarded for the massive increases in productivity over the last 50 years, we'd all be on a 3 day week by now, or would at least have pay that kept up with inflation. But that didn't happen, did it?

> No, they weren't

Jesus. No, they weren't what?

The luddites were taking organised action because they were about to be put out of a job. How is that any different to the rail strikes in the UK? The benefits of automation were not equally distributed - and here's a newsflash for you - they STILL aren't equally distributed or there wouldn't be mass strikes across the UK and US at the moment, to increase pay.

The line that you and others parrot about them just destroying machinery like lunatics as though they actually had it out for machines is laughable, and plenty of historians have spoken against this idea.

> Malcolm L. Thomis argued in his 1970 history The Luddites that machine-breaking was one of a very few tactics that workers could use to increase pressure on employers, to undermine lower-paid competing workers, and to create solidarity among workers. "These attacks on machines did not imply any necessary hostility to machinery as such; machinery was just a conveniently exposed target against which an attack could be made." An agricultural variant of Luddism occurred during the widespread Swing Riots of 1830 in southern and eastern England, centering on breaking threshing machines.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite?wprov=sfla1

Right. The luddites have been given a bad name when it's capitalists who should be getting flak. They're exactly the same as people protesting across the world today for fairer wages etc.

This is getting embarrassing. How are the top tech firms, Microsoft, Google and Apple not making these AI breakthroughs by themselves instead of a startup like OpenAI.

"It's just predicting the next word."

I'm having a hard time understanding where all that knowledge gets "saved", if it doesn't have access to the internet. Need to read more about ML I guess.

Not different things. Chat GPT will soon have internet access (i.e. live data) and a ton of plugins.

The near future - you'll be using these AI tools to increase your output and productivity. Many, like me, have been doing this for the last year already.

The longer term future may be a little more uncertain. For example - what happens when we have an AGI that doesn't need the direction of a human developer? It just needs input from some product person and then it goes and builds an app.

You'd think that would be useful in any location..

I have one from about 14 years ago - probably has another 14 in it at least.

Demis Hassabis? Who has a PhD in cognitive neuroscience and actually researched AI? I mean that's one that actually makes sense.

It means he's a founder with a creative writing/marketing background.

> one of the "gods of AI"

I wouldn't go that far - he's not an engineer/developer. He's a writer and was the "policy/marketing director" for Open AI.

He doesn't have a technical background so wouldn't pay too much attention to it.

I'd be interested to know how someone with a BA in Creative Writing and most of their work experience being in news reporting, then marketing at Open AI, ends up founding a company like Anthropic, which gets investment from Google.

The elite were Nazis, and Nazism itself is literally described as

> It is placed on the far-right of the political spectrum

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazism

No, they don't. Try harder, lib.

You didn't prove your point. You proved you don't know the difference between open source software and managed services that are charged for.

You have no idea what you're talking about, do you?

> totalitarianism ( far left )

It's not far left. Nazi Germany was totalitarian and they were on the far right. Any left or right wing leader can be a dictator/totalitarian.

OSS is literally work performed without the incentive of profit, often purposely for the benefit of others / the greater good.

It's got zero to do with business. Keep grasping.

It might happen sooner than 2023?

Why? There's no guarantee that the results on the pages Google spit out give correct information either.

Assuming no competition from others.

Well, 2023 is going to be wild.

I spoke about repetitive code but it's also helpful for when you don't know something - saves you the step of Googling or checking documentation.