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Ikr, so capitalism brained they can't conceive of the idea that is meant to be used in the socialist manners if you want to ingratiate it to the common people. They're so damn bad at marketing holy shit.

The bot will do the spreadsheets too, leaving you (and your child) ample time to stare into a screen while an algorithm feeds you an endless stream of generated content modeled on other generated content that a wearable devices detected made your heart rate tick up slightly when you saw it!

Meanwhile, AI promises to free you up to spend a lot of time with your kids, once it takes your job so you can live homeless & broke on the streets with them.

spreadsheets will be done by AI Dad will get the family begging on the streets for fun

The difference between a hacker and a tech-bro is that a developer knows that the most important innovations in technology already happened in the 60s and 70s. Since the invention of the Web, it's all been diminishing returns from there…

Finally even more reasons to ignore my family *wipes sweat off forehead*

People need to watch the Orville 😉

Much sooner than that, actually, the bullshit machines will become just good enough to replace their creators’ janitors’ kids’ teachers so that their school districts can hire more cops

While monitoring them 24/7 to make sure they are working on those spreadsheets.

More time fixing up the errors the robots introduced into your employer's spreadsheets

You have to do the spreadsheets yourself because the robots have a 57% correct rate in Excel. Your kids will be fine with them, though

Similar to why I hate shit like Huel - barely edible liquid plaster designed to allow your drones to skip a proper lunch.

(*An underpaid Malaysian person will be operating MyBuddyDrone)

yes, the continuation and attempted perfection of a long-enduring theme, pointed out by Nietzsche among others—

I wish it was that good. At least working on spreadsheets is indoors. The robots will do your spreadsheets so you can pick vegetables in the freezing rain.

😂

“Which is perfect because our other robot will be fucking up your spreadsheets so bad you’ll need to fix them all the time!”

Sigh…dystopia is real

& you will be doing 2x the spreadsheets at work because there is no need to hire co-workers, while your kids are entertained by an AI nanny/manny!

Why does AI have to come for our jobs AND our hobbies??

actually, fixing your employer's spreadsheets because the AI they got to fill them in has a 43% error rate.

"also we have automated your employer's spreadsheets, to the factories/mines with you"

and then it never happens

"Theres a bot for that too!" Happy days

lol, people working on spreadsheets? How quaint the robots will do that too.

"Soon you won't need to have kids. We'll just assign you a $15 subscription to Digital Child and you'll get emails every ten minutes telling you how good they are, and how they'd be better if you paid to upgrade them."

I want a robot who dusts and sorts laundry, not one that plays with children and puppies or steals the jobs of writers, poets, and artists.

Fucking bleak! Gotta fight though.

have you considered that the spreadsheet is gonna make the kids irrelevant in the next 24-36 months?

Plenty of tech ideas are sensible, genuinely useful - and relatively small. They don't hit the headlines, obviously. But they're there. There are folks scratching itches all over the place, and it's fab. Don't let the bad and silly stuff put you off the good bits :)

logistics without a union! it's genius

I thought it was so we could start drinking. And if you already do, you can start doing psychedelics. Spreadsheets will be AI generated so no need to keep up your Excel skills.

The movie "click" was underrated. Fight me lol 🤷‍♀️

"HEY, EMPLOYER! Why hire assistants, when our AI program can do 1,000 human-hours of work per minute--at a fraction of the cost? And AI doesn't need healthcare, payroll taxes, or PTO!" "HEY, LAW FIRM! Why hire an associate or paralegal when AI can do the scutwork for less?" SEE WHERE THIS IS GOING?

Recently there was a profile of the CEO of Airbnb in WIRED and he basically was like "It was the day after Thanksgiving, I was alone with my dog" and I'm like JESUS DUDE THAT'S REALLY FUCKIN GRIM.

Well, no, not really, but the ability of large language models to capture context and create knowledge is being oversold. Try looking up what happens when you try to evolve/train a model to predict prime numbers...

"Soon our advanced Guessing Machine will make 90% of jobs unnecessary" "Oh cool what happens to those people, do we reorient society around comfort and self improvement because robots do all the shit people have to do to live right now?" "Nnnnnnno"

Pretty soon humans do not have to do anything and nobody will need them anyway. New Tech ideas are becoming the same as military intelligence.

If it wasn't for these greedy idiots, we would have flying cars by now.

Freeing you up to spend more time using AI to apply for a new job whose advert on LinkedIn was generated by AI because you lost your old job to AI

Of late, definitely

All of Bluesky tech commentary was predicted by Douglas Adams

You need to play "Five Nights at Freddy's: Secret of the Mimic" to understand exactly why this is a HORRIBLE idea.

don't worry, the government is working tirelessly to let "coal miner" remain a viable career option for generations to come, it's not going to be only office work.

"It will be a Utopia!"

“Soon our robots will take care of your spouse’s emotional needs, so you can go out drinking with your friends.”

I'm sure it will turn out fine 🫠

tech bros are a plague

… to spend time fixing the mistakes the AI made in your employers’ spreadsheets.

I'm starting to think the workaholics are the ones coming up with the ideas in tech.

Nah. AI is going to be handling those spreadsheets.

Butlerian Jihad. NOW.

”Soon there will be no jobs for you. But he who does not work shall not eat. We will not have lazy non workers cluttering up our cities. To the camps!”

Yeah he would.....😄

Spreadsheet jobs already going away. No one has yet stated how the economy will function with 90% loss of income tax $ because 70% of the labor force doesn’t have a job. My “back of napkin” math factors low % of taxes wealthiest pay. Tax $ will HAVE to come from billionaires when 70% are destitute.

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With AI-monitored, motion-activated cameras everywhere, that won't be so easy! Plus that tracking chip they'll install in everyone...heck, they'll even be tracking the DNA of the oranges soon enough (looking for stolen genetically-engineered fruit, and the occasional fruit thief)!

..until you finish teaching the AI how to do spreadsheets, then you get laid off w/o severance pay.

Why not both? The robot plays catch with my kid *and* works on my employer's spreadsheet at the same time, freeing me up to do buy something crypto? /s

Lol.

I’m waiting for the announcement that they are replacing the air traffic controllers with AI.

The robots will be doing the spreadsheets too.

Indeed... when your kids are praying to the robot in the sky.

Grok, is this real?

… which can be done much cheaper with AI, freeing you to go die quietly of starvation somewhere.

Driverless Taxis are running around Vegas... zoox.com/journal/las-...

Not every single. There's a growing movement to build platforms for communities, run by the communities. I'm working on it myself, and I've met a number of other people with similar ideas.

and they're working tirelessly to teach the robots to do the spreadsheets, at which time uhhh you can go live in the woods with your kid

p.s. our robots sometimes spontaneously combust

Or BE your wife

That’s crazy! The fantasy is a cozy nap in the back.

So you can spend more time with your existential dread.

Give me a robot that folds and puts away my laundry.

“And the cat’s in the cradle…”

Which kind of explains our tech bubble 2.0. Algorithms that will always hallucinate because it’s part of the code and yet investors are all in for destroying human jobs.

Maybe you need more robots. You might be interested in my books: Robot Management, Robot Relations, Robot Benefits, or our top selling title: Did Your Robot Read Your Robot Management Book?

No lie: I was driving through Redmond WA once and a sex shop had a sign up for a toy that was guaranteed to bring you to completion in a VERY time-efficient manner (30 seconds, maybe?), I assume so that you have more time to work on the spreadsheets that bring you so much joy. Priorities!

We are close to perfecting a robot that can offer emotional support to a friend in need, while you focus on reading your HOA to see if you can expand your deck

Think about how much more shareholder value I could add if I didn’t watch 20 hours of football every weekend and instead had a bot that could consume it for me and tell me about it..

So you have more time to clean the sewers

Hey, beautiful Saturday morning! I would like to make a cash offer for your house.

All my skills and talents have evaporated, and I picture myself dragging around buckets of rocks or something while tech bros light cigars with hundred dollar bills, and then I collapse under a bush at the side of the road. Fin

And also, their tech is nowhere near actually doing anything.

They said all this on tomorrow’s world ages ago. Didn’t happen.

and sexbots… every second idea is about sexbots and the rest is about taking art and mangling it! Ai is hyperbole and toxicity…

Not surprised that the tech types view children as a chore

I recall a friend saying he didn't believe in obeying crossing lights because that's how Skynet wins.

All I know is I'm afraid the robot would crush a kid to death like it did to Robert Williams or Kenji Ikeda. I don't trust robots at all.

People are already having Chat GPT make up and read stories to their children.