Whats the official leftypol hivemind opinion on generative AI?
3 posts omitted.New frontier of exploitation, tech capitalists making profit from already existing work, read Marx blah blah blah. I just wish we'd stop calling it ai, it's not intelligent.
“An age of barbarism is beginning, and science will be at its service.” The age of barbarism is not yet over, and Nietzsche’s diagnosis is now being confirmed. The sciences are so attentive to satisfying and even anticipating every demand of the age that, when it decided it had neither the desire nor the capacity to think, they immediately provided it with a device called “artificial intelligence” (abbreviated to AI). The name is not transparent, because the problem with AI is not that it is artificial (thought, insofar as it is inseparable from language, always involves art or a degree of artifice), but that it is located outside the mind of the subject who thinks or should think. In this respect, it resembles Averroes’ separate intellect, which, according to the brilliant Andalusian philosopher, was unique to all men. For Averroes, the problem was therefore that of the relationship between the separate intellect and the individual. If intelligence is separate from individuals, how can they unite with it in order to think? Averroes’ answer is that individuals communicated with the separate intellect through the imagination, which remains individual. It is undoubtedly a symptom of the barbarism of the time, as well as its absolute lack of imagination, that this problem is not raised with regard to artificial intelligence. If it were simply an instrument, like mechanical calculators, the problem would indeed not exist. If, on the other hand, it is assumed, as is in fact the case, that, like Averroes’ separate intellect, AI thinks, then the problem of the relationship with the thinking subject cannot be avoided. Roberto Bazlen once said that in our time intelligence has ended up in the hands of the stupid. It is possible that the crucial problem of our time then takes this form: how can a stupid person—that is, a non-thinker—enter into a relationship with an intelligence that claims to think outside of him?
It makes the pettybourgeois seethe so cool by be
i dont like it because it makes me feel retarded