I have been saying, that automation should be taxed for years now, and people hate it. The poem "First they came ..." comes to mind.
this post was submitted on 27 Dec 2023
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Tax the business (on revenue or profit) at a high enough rate it hurts, then give tax breaks to incentivize “fully employed workers with benefits meeting ‘X’ minimums”….
Use automation if it is the correct answer for productivity or solving a given problem but you still have to kick in for the society you want to live in. Businesses shouldn’t get to harvest all of the value out of a society without contributing. Providing jobs was the old mechanism… now it’s evolving.
If they offshore hq to dodge taxation, tax the local product or service at a commensurate rate. If you want access to our marketplace, you chip in, too. That should go for every country on the planet.
Taxed? Fuck that. Any AI with human intelligence deserves at least minimum wage.
But automation encompasses more than just AI with human intelligence. For the other cases, it should be taxed and the money used to fund more social nets.
How would it get measured?
Would should automation be disincentivized?\
Not gonna happen, what everyone is calling "AI" isn't even actually AI, its just a type of predictive text
Do you think more advanced AI could come along? If so, what is your timeline prediction and why?
Don't get me wrong, its completely possible that actual AI will come about in that time frame, but what they're talking about is turning predictive text and image generators into something on par with true sentience, which it is not really something this tech is capable of in my eyes*, the main reason this tech is being called AI is because that makes it much more marketable
As for a time frame, I have no idea. I personally believe that if TRUE AI is invented, it will either be something that happens on the basis of a new technology that we have not yet discovered, and it will happen overnight, or it will happen accidentally using existing technology in areas we arent looking for it.
- it occurs to me that by "compete with" they may mean in the job market, which is something this tech can currently do in some fields (poorly), but since it steals the work of actual humans to do so, its not really that the "AI" would be getting better to the point of competing, it would simply be that the people in charge get better at hiding the theft to the point that the content would actually seem original
Is that because AI is getting smarter, or because humans are getting dumber?
Yes
"I have created a pretrained transformer LLM statistically indistinguishable from your grandpa posting on Facebook"
No
This article resembles this one beat for beat from a month earlier: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/11/29/nvidia-ceo-ai-will-be-fairly-competitive-with-humans-in-5-years.html
CEO of company creating AI overhypes AI. Film at eleven.
In Jensen's wet dreams