Just read this interview with the head of DeepMind, who's AI has done some clever science stuff (I e. they are trying to say they are pushing it towards society/human progress and benefits).
But he doesn't sound too sure it's going to work out well.
4 Aug 2025
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Rouge simulants will destroy us all.
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Mascarobots?
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That’s an interesting piece, with a worryingly frequent use of ‘hopefully’. If the question is whether AI will benefit all of mankind or just the rich and powerful, I think I know the answer.
I read a different expert’s opinion recently, and his take was that almost zero jobs would exist within 20 years. This, combined with the total lack of preparation for the enormous changes ahead, is what in my opinion is likely to lead to societal collapse well before the killer robots turn up. I’m glad I probably won’t be around to experience it, but I do fear for my kids and grandchildren.
Happy Monday!
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What I struggle with is what the end game is. If there are no jobs who buys the services ai is providing? What is the benefit to the AI owners.
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Don't need people....the rich who have accumulated all the power and stuff, and will solve the climate crisis with the great thinning.
Happy monday!
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You're talking about this Mounjaro thing right?
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They are definitely going to need less people, consuming much less resource. What we already know about the uber-rich, is that they are not keen on giving stuff they've accumulated away, so that ordinary people have nice happy fulfilling lives.
I strongly suspect it will be more drastic than that.
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But what really matters is whether Forest are playing in the Europa or the Conference League this season.
Priorities people.
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Mixed feelings here. Very talented player, but one that I feel could annoy the fuck out me. I think Nuno's 'do the work' approach, could well maximise the former, and minimise the later.
There is a real problem in the modern game, that the really good players, believe their own socials, and become strollers (eg, Messi, Mbappe, Rashford - it's a cancer that's spreading). It used to be the fact that really good players, alongside not only being able to kick, absolutely did the work (eg Rush, Keegan, Barnes, Gascoigne).
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That's a good point and one that might persuade those in power to support some form of UBI, so we can buy the basic stuff that their AI will be able to provide us with. I'm pretty sure they won't give us enough for a decent standard of living - something on the lines of Universal Credit or the current state pension I imagine.
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Why would they give you stuff, just so they can take it way from you? If you are no use for anything, how are you going to earn extras to buy better stuff?
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But I don't understand the business model, is it just selling to other billionaires
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The DeepMind guy seems to imply it is a much bigger change than that, because a Capitalist society can't function when nobody is working/earning/buying any more.
A worrying amount of passing the buck to 'politics' to sort that out. Communism?
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The people would do well to seize the means of production, and the political control that a majority can assert. Because if they don't it will go badly for them.
Which is largely why divide and control is being conspired against us.
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With any of these things, don't you have to be wary of someone who's talking up his own book? And he's still talking about LLMs, rather than what would have been regarded as AI previously. As far as I'm aware, any of these models need to be told what to do and then suck in a bunch of information to do that (or something that looks like what they were told to do).
So they could (for example) probably come up with a reasonable plan for a bank robbery but wouldn't and couldn't come up with the idea to rob a bank in the first place.
