Logic big update: chromaglow vs nam/guitarml and does drummer now have round robins

richardyot

@tahiche said:
It’s not only about music. It’s translations, graphic design, programming, customer care… just about everything. Read somewhere that about 25% of current jobs could be taken over by AI. So “it doesn’t affect me” is the wrong mindset because it will one way or another.
Is AI evil?. Should it be stopped?. No way, if a machine can work for you, let it. But labor conditions and work hours need to be changed to account for this. AI is a human achievement that should benefit societies as a whole, as naive as that may sound.
The session bass player who is not needed for that 80% of songs where the AI-bassist is good enough, should now have more free time and keep the living standards doing that 20% where the AI doesn’t cut it. To me this is basic common sense but many will think it’s communism…

Historically when jobs have disappeared because of productivity increases this has been a net benefit, because it allows humans to do more with fewer resources.

200 years ago if you wanted to build a road, you would have needed 100 men with pickaxes and spades, and it would have taken years.

Today 20 men can build a road in a few months using diggers and bulldozers.

That means that the other people who are no longer needed to build the road are free to do other things, so society as a whole becomes richer, because collectively people can produce a lot more stuff. This is the reason that we are richer and more comfortable than our ancestors: we are collectively much more productive thanks to technology.

So personally I am not worried about job displacement, although there could be some issues in the short term as people need to transition to different careers. But new jobs will replace the old ones. 100 years ago there were no computer programmers or air traffic control agents, but as technology changes we find new ways to employ people.

So as long as this trend continues AI could be a net benefit. My concern with AI is that it is mostly used to generate garbage content in vast quantities, polluting our culture with spam. To me that is the real problem with the tech. It incentivises quantity over quality, and people use it to generate crap at scale.