Amazon founder Jeff Bezos believes that artificial intelligence is going to lead to unprecedented productivity gains which could result in […] two income households deciding that they no longer need two incomes.
As if he’d ever let that happen.
and as if this isn’t something that flags with the historical trends
https://www.epi.org/productivity-pay-gap/
In short, up till the 1970s worker pay and productivity moved nearly in perfect sync with each-other, more stuff happens, people get paid more, then, it stopped, company profits shot up, while worker pay barely went up at all (could be argued it went down due to inflation), Point is fixing that part first is kind of what matters. Then we can look into expecting the average person to care about “productivity” going up, THEN we can start finding out if AI is even being directed in a way that accomplishes that.
Man, it really seems to take off in 1980. What could possibly explain that?
Side note: while he seems good in comparison to Darth Raygun, Jimmy “the peanut” Carter was pretty awful on labor issues.
Your dream is realized Jeff! Just slightly different. My wife got laid off, so congrats, we’re a single income household.
I’d love to hear him explain his thought process behind that theory. How exactly is AI going to do all of that? Like, all of that sounds wonderful, but so does winning the lottery. How likely is all of that to happen? And what are the risks involved if it doesn’t materialize the way he envisions?
We really need to stop letting these rich fucks just talk out of their ass.
If we triple the lines of code produced, the number of LinkedIn posts made, and the number of garbage AI images generated, everyone will be able to afford a house and food will become so cheap it might as well be free.
because if we’ve learned one thing about Bezos and his pals is that they will be sooo happy to share any additional profits with their employees!
you know some people have to deal with one income and its annoying he sees this as mandatory.
What does AI have to do with Oppenheimer?
It is the destroyer of worlds.
Nuclear weapons were the holy grail of warfare, a game changer. AI is viewed by some as a similarly revolutionary, powerful tool.
