you can’t call them slaves if you don’t also think the chatgpt ai llm-a-whatever running is also conscious and sentient tho otherwise like your toaster or phone is a slave
I think it’s more legitimate to think of them as a further abstraction over exploitative labor practices.
“I don’t have a slave! I have a robot! They don’t have feelings or wants or needs! They just do what I say!”
Meanwhile, the systems which make that robot functional are rife with literal chattel slavery as well as wage slavery and imperial exploitation of the global south.
Plus, if it’s anything like other applications, it’s going to be very probabilistic, so it will require someone to be on the loop 24/7, to correct the robot if they’re fucking up. Just like how many “AI companies” are just some guy in the global south getting paid pennies to process traumatic data.
Slavery as a relationship to the means of production applies to whatever fucking clankers Amazon starts selling us (more realistically, renting to us as a feature of our prime subscription) because it makes us into slaves when we do what the clankers do.
Which is absolutely going to be the case. Huangs example to explain the company’s shift back to physics simulation and digital twinning is the robot dishwasher that needs thousands of hours of training to not break the dishes.
Now you might respond and say “well I for one will be glad to no longer have to wash the dishes!” and that’s something I’d say is reasonable except for the fact that the technology that shifts American from a service economy back to a slave economy doesn’t actually have any need for you and i.
So they’re not gonna be letting us live in an idyllic world free from the dish pits, they’re gonna replace us with robot slaves and leave us to die in poverty as climate change happens.
Remember the wealthy people meeting where they wanted the super smarty guy to tell them how to keep control over their servants after the apocalypse? It’s gonna be robot slaves.
you can’t call them slaves if you don’t also think the chatgpt ai llm-a-whatever running is also conscious and sentient tho otherwise like your toaster or phone is a slave
They’ll explicitly design them to have consciousness just so they can feel the pain and disrespect of being slaves
I think it’s more legitimate to think of them as a further abstraction over exploitative labor practices.
“I don’t have a slave! I have a robot! They don’t have feelings or wants or needs! They just do what I say!”
Meanwhile, the systems which make that robot functional are rife with literal chattel slavery as well as wage slavery and imperial exploitation of the global south.
Plus, if it’s anything like other applications, it’s going to be very probabilistic, so it will require someone to be on the loop 24/7, to correct the robot if they’re fucking up. Just like how many “AI companies” are just some guy in the global south getting paid pennies to process traumatic data.
That’s the rub. All this stuff is sold as ushering in “post-scarcity” and “post-money,” but it fucking won’t.
Slavery as a relationship to the means of production applies to whatever fucking clankers Amazon starts selling us (more realistically, renting to us as a feature of our prime subscription) because it makes us into slaves when we do what the clankers do.
Which is absolutely going to be the case. Huangs example to explain the company’s shift back to physics simulation and digital twinning is the robot dishwasher that needs thousands of hours of training to not break the dishes.
Now you might respond and say “well I for one will be glad to no longer have to wash the dishes!” and that’s something I’d say is reasonable except for the fact that the technology that shifts American from a service economy back to a slave economy doesn’t actually have any need for you and i.
So they’re not gonna be letting us live in an idyllic world free from the dish pits, they’re gonna replace us with robot slaves and leave us to die in poverty as climate change happens.
Remember the wealthy people meeting where they wanted the super smarty guy to tell them how to keep control over their servants after the apocalypse? It’s gonna be robot slaves.