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odinlubumeta t1_j9nksk5 wrote

Reply to comment by SnooPuppers1978 in Google case at Supreme Court risks upending the internet as we know it by dustofoblivion123

Again you are arguing for things you like or it seems your needs. YouTube existed before it had an algorithm. You act as if this stuff can’t exist without it’s very predatory ad algorithm. People would also adapt. It’s a poor argument. There are technologies that will come that don’t currently exist and you will adapt to them, but giant corporations can’t?

And you are also arguing we can’t make new laws because content creators would either have to evolve or go away? You know we once had a giant book industry. Most people who worked in them had to find new jobs. We certainly don’t make laws to keep everything static.

I am sure it will go Googles way. They have a massive lobby and billions to spend. That’s not the argument. The fact that your whole argument seems to be that you like where things are is a poor argument. The southerners loved having slaves and change was so hard for them that they literally went to war to try to keep things the way they lived. That’s not a good argument then and it isn’t now. You don’t make laws for selfish wants.

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TONKAHANAH t1_j9nk4th wrote

Reply to AI in the Workplace Is Already Here. The First Battleground? Call Centers by wsj

I was curious how well chatgpt handles technical support questions and while it would have to tweaked specifically to work with real world humans who dont know squat about how to fix basic things, it actually just made it very clear that technical support, at least level 1 basic support will be a job of the past for humans.

but i suppose that also means it may just be something that can be built into the OS in the future as well. You want something done/fixed, you can just ask the OS AI to sort it out for you and it likely can/will.

I've worked on the phones and in enough call centers to know that when companies have an effective combo of a specific language model AI + AI generated voice to go along with it, they'll never need any one to work basic customer support or lvl1 support again, they'll only need humans in escalation rolls. Frankly I think these bots will actually just flat out be better than most lvl 1 tech/support employees. They'll have more info immediately available, they'll have unlimited patience, and they'll probably actually be able to ascertain what the customers are calling in for more effectively.

for example. one of the reasons so many people hate having to call tech support and why getting things done through them is such a pain in the ass is because most of the time the customer poorly explains the issue, and the support agent doesnt listen or think about the issue at all and just jumps right into the company's pre-planned "flow chart" of problem-solving. Frankly, I think these AI's will just be better at all of the things people hate about calling support lines. Down side is it means a lot of easy entry level jobs are gonna be wiped out, for better or worse.

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Bacch t1_j9njwqk wrote

Reply to comment by override367 in Google case at Supreme Court risks upending the internet as we know it by dustofoblivion123

Sure, you can, I can, hell, most of Reddit can figure that out.

Now consider that the people I just mentioned are in the top, let's say, 10% of the "internet savvy" bellcurve. Maybe that's generous. Move that number in either direction as wildly as you like, and it's still a stunning number of people who will go to their graves without it ever occurring to them that the option you just mentioned is right there--even when it's on their screen.

People are dumb. We make an awful lot of laws to accommodate them, and in some cases, because dumb people do even dumber things when they don't know better. These folks are too dumb to know better. And wind up doing dumb, dangerous, or worse things. If there's any link that can be tied back to something that lawmakers or the courts think they can fix with their own Dunning-Kruger perspective, they'll generally tie it and then fix it in the most obtuse and generally worst conceivable way possible.

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TastyFennel540 t1_j9nj567 wrote

Reply to comment by Hostilis_ in Google announces major breakthrough that represents ‘significant shift’ in quantum computers by Ezekiel_W

It will take decades, Google even alludes to that on their site, but to be honest, the insane power of quantum computers is worth it.

I don't think it will be like fusion in the sense, that most experts understand this task is complex and know how long this will take unlike fusion. Mostly No one thinks quantum computing will happen in the next 7 years.

There will be more computing advances in the near future to look forward too.

Maybe then we'll have a tech points cheat code for our civilization

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