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The People Do Not Yearn For Automation

via jbranchaud@gmail.com

https://www.theverge.com/podcast/917029/software-brain-ai-backlash-databases-automation

This article makes the case that AI doesn't have a marketing problem. Rather the AI companies are pushing "solutions" that people don't want into every system that they use day-to-day.

And so the tech industry is rushing forward to put AI everywhere at enormous cost — energy, emissions, manufacturing capacity, the ability to buy RAM — and locked into the narrow framework of software brain without realizing they are also asking people to be fundamentally less human. They then sit around wondering why everyone hates them.

This article talks about "Software Brain" a bunch which is a precursor (or precondition) of "AI Psychosis". If you think of everything in terms of how it can be flattened into software systems, then it's a short step to start thinking about how you can use AI all the time to 10x and automate all of that.