it would be really nice to be excited by the advances in AI, to look forward to what we could do with it, rather than dreading the inevitable future in which it’s inflicted on us without our consent and used to further alienate and immiserate us
@basic_charnel same for robots 🫣🫠
@basic_charnel i'm just so fucking tired of it all
this isn't strictly on ai but, the lecturer taking the module teaching us research openly said, "yeah, you have to know whether you'll need ethical approval for your project next year - but don't worry, unless you're doing user testing you probably won't." like, there are no ethical questions about using AI? which several people in my class are definitely using?
@doe well tbf they’re probably talking specifically about research ethics there, which is something that’s a key part of academia and quite well understood and codified. but aye I hear ya.
@basic_charnel I mean yes, I understand that, but why is ethical approval limited to projects where outside people might be directly involved? there are no implications elsewhere?
@doe from an academic research ethics viewpoint, no (and obviously you can argue whether that’s good or not, but all they need to teach is the status quo)
@basic_charnel Prompting Chat-GPT to create a plan for revolutionary communism in 2 years with a timeline.
The impetus of the sociological evolution of the last half century should be largely credited to those who have toiled in laboratories, and those who have translated into practical use the fruits of such labors. One hears a lament that a mechanized world would not be a pleasant one in which to live. Quite the contrary should be true. And it can be true if the fine minds who have accomplished so much in the realms of applied science will unite with the same enthusiasm to control their creations against social misuse.
Obviously, research regarding technological unemployment is as vital today as further refinement or production of labor saving and comfort giving devices. … said Amelia Earhart, and then market capitalism proceeded to continue to stomp in everyone's faces for the subsequent ninety-years and into the foreseeable. 🤦🏻♀️
capitalism makes so much innovation a thing to fear rather than welcome