I think that's already uncomfortably close to reality.
A fully AI company was already tried as an experiment. There is also a company that appointed an AI CEO but I suspect this one is a publicity stunt. The experiment was a "failure" by the way, with AI agents only completing less than 20% of the tasks in the fake company and with some hilarious mishaps. But 20% of a company tasks being done in full autonomy by (not specifically trained) AI is scary.
Right now, various socials are full of AI generated fake engagement, images and videos. Meta is offering AI-powered ads.
The obvious question I see asked every time, also here on Lemmy, is: if most of Facebook becomes a zombie world where comments and fake engagement is all LLMs, who would buy those Meta ads?
That question was actually what inspired this wildly successful (-27 votes and counting!) showerthought of mine: this fake engagement only makes sense if Meta thinks we'll give AI more and more agency to choose the products we buy and (eventually) buy them on our behalf. So it's going to be AI convincing other AIs to buy. Our money becomes sentient, so to speak,
I like the comparison. We used to think of the Economy like this hard-to-control, vital but occasionally dangerous natural force, like Gravity.
The showerthought was that with the advent of machine models, money has started becoming sentient and making decisions without us.
Fair enough.... I meant more in the sense of investment/pension funds. Or the fact that the actual value of the bills in our pockets is driven up or (more frequently) down and probably so does the interest rate of your mortgage or the price of your fuel. And maybe not for you, but the algorithms on social media do have influence on what company you choose for your insurance.
Fun fact: Nadella has been replaced with an AI agent a couple of months ago and nobody has noticed yet. "Copilot, while I'm away, generate bs on AI adoption and fire a bunch of employees, ok?"
being the worst US president was too easy. Most of them were kinda decent people overall. Being the worst pope ever though... I guess he likes the challenge
I did read the article and indeed the content is about what you say.
On the other hand, I don't know if titling this as "Canada might be the second election Trump wins in six months" is an attempt at sarcasm, click-bait or spin (pretending not to know the number of people who will only ever read the title). It's sad that I now I jump directly to believing the latter so I do hope that I'm wrong
prompt engineering does require skills. It's just that, rightly or not, they are now seen by companies as foundational skills for a lot of jobs and worth investing in training for most employees (rather than hiring a team of prompt specialists).
Like if you work in certain roles you need to have good knowledge of spreadsheet software, you don't go to your company's "Excel guru".
The title leaves out another gem in the second part of the sentence: "...and it's only illegal because it comes from Latin America".
Now it has it all, the science-defying stupidity, the nationalist undertones and the "other countries are not treating us fairly" hint.
The tragedy of our times is that there really is one in every village and now they discovered that if they band together they can elect one as President.
Like it or not (I don't) the horrific immigration policies get a lot of support.
Other countries are taking notice too.
Germany is considering removing German citizenship to dual passport holders if they are deemed "extremists" (but with no clear definition of what that means and how it would be determined).
Since before Trump 2, Italy has already had its own camp in Albania for immigrants and it's share of friction with judges who said these deportations were illegal.
Also "let Russia have Ukraine, why do we care" has enjoyed the sort of support people are ashamed to admit but that translates to votes to all the worst politicians.
I think that's already uncomfortably close to reality.
A fully AI company was already tried as an experiment. There is also a company that appointed an AI CEO but I suspect this one is a publicity stunt. The experiment was a "failure" by the way, with AI agents only completing less than 20% of the tasks in the fake company and with some hilarious mishaps. But 20% of a company tasks being done in full autonomy by (not specifically trained) AI is scary.
Right now, various socials are full of AI generated fake engagement, images and videos. Meta is offering AI-powered ads. The obvious question I see asked every time, also here on Lemmy, is: if most of Facebook becomes a zombie world where comments and fake engagement is all LLMs, who would buy those Meta ads? That question was actually what inspired this wildly successful (-27 votes and counting!) showerthought of mine: this fake engagement only makes sense if Meta thinks we'll give AI more and more agency to choose the products we buy and (eventually) buy them on our behalf. So it's going to be AI convincing other AIs to buy. Our money becomes sentient, so to speak,
Crazy talk, right? Well....