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Are there any genuine benefits to AI? (self.technology)

submitted 9 months ago by fiddlestix to c/technology

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I can see some minor benefits - I use it for the odd bit of mundane writing and some of the image creation stuff is interesting,, and I knew that a lot of people use it for coding etc - but mostly it seems to be about making more cash for corporations and stuffing the internet with bots and fake content. Am I missing something here? Are there any genuine benefits?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

But with decision making that can affect peoples' lives and livelihoods, we need to be damn sure the computer is going to make the right decision every time or not trust it to have full controls at all.

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Yes, dystopia already arrived and we will all going to suffer. Here are just a few simple examples of blind trust of algorithms which ruined people's lives. And day by day more are coming.

Before AI: https://sg.finance.yahoo.com/news/prison-bankruptcy-suicide-software-glitch-080025767.html

After AI: https://news.yahoo.com/man-raped-jail-ai-technology-210846029.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/10/22/ai-hiring-face-scanning-algorithm-increasingly-decides-whether-you-deserve-job/