AI was supposed to win people over by now – it hasn't

(techcrunch.com)

10 points | by speckx 12 hours ago ago

8 comments

  • jqpabc123 12 hours ago ago

    What's not to love about a flawed and unreliable technology that aims to kill jobs?

    • jleyank 12 hours ago ago

      You forgot - it also aims to consume lots of power and water and hardware to keep it from others. Privatize the profits, socialize the costs.

    • b1gTekken 8 hours ago ago

      Same thing can be said about other versions of early tech; internet services were horribly unreliable and out to kill travel agent and others jobs

      Oh right I am sorry... forgot this is HN... you meant to express concern about your job replacing

      My bad

      • voxl 2 hours ago ago

        You mean that technology that resulted in a massive bubble, wasn't marketed as replacing all labor and giving the rich personal slaves? You mean the technology that enables human communication and creativity instead of promoting human isolation and stealing human creativity?

    • anon373839 10 hours ago ago

      … while concentrating immensely more wealth and power in the hands of a few weird and depraved people.

    • alksdeef 10 hours ago ago

      and people! (autonomous drones)

  • calldacopsidgaf 10 hours ago ago

    2025 AI CEOs: "AI is gonna wipe your puny little job off the map and you better adapt or die, bitch."

    2026: "OwO I'm just a wittle guy, why does everyone hate me? Trump come save us from the open models"

  • quickthrowman 10 hours ago ago

    “We’re going to eliminate half of white collar jobs” is a pretty terrible sales pitch.

    Sure, it gets investors all hot and bothered but for some odd reason, the average person isn’t quite as excited by the same pitch.