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AI Has No Wisdom and Neither Will You

388 points · 554 comments · dimonomid

  1. _usefulcat · · focus · HN ↗
    > I’m going to make a prediction of my own… In the future we will see more and more companies proudly boasting their “NO-AI” policy as a competitive advantage. And they will be right

    I'm going to make my own prediction: this isn't going to happen

    1. Kuyawa · · focus · HN ↗
      Luddites have existed since the dawn of times:

        "We're not going to use tractors to plow the fields"
  "We're not going to use trucks to deliver our produce"
  "We're not going to use planes to meet with our global partners"
  "We're not going to use computers to run our business"
  "We're not going to open a web shop, brick and mortar forever"
  "We're not going to use AI to make decisions for us"
      1. callmeal · · focus · HN ↗
        >Luddites have existed since the dawn of times:

        Pet peeve - luddites had never been against technology. They had been against using low paid inexperienced grunt workers to displace well paid experts.

        See: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.smithsonianmag.com&#x2F;history&#x2F;what-the-luddites-really-fought-against-264412&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.smithsonianmag.com&#x2F;history&#x2F;what-the-luddites-rea...

            As the Industrial Revolution began, workers naturally worried about being displaced by increasingly efficient machines. But the Luddites themselves “were totally fine with machines,” says Kevin Binfield, editor of the 2004 collection Writings of the Luddites. They confined their attacks to manufacturers who used machines in what they called “a fraudulent and deceitful manner” to get around standard labor practices. “They just wanted machines that made high-quality goods,” says Binfield, “and they wanted these machines to be run by workers who had gone through an apprenticeship and got paid decent wages. Those were their only concerns.”
        1. Kiro · · focus · HN ↗
          Hardly a pet peeve when it&#x27;s the most mainstream thing to point out nowadays.
          1. callmeal · · focus · HN ↗
            But it&#x27;s nice to point out to youngins who may not realize how &quot;embrace and extend&quot; worked historically.
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