☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.ml to technology@hexbear.netEnglish · 2 months ago'Godfather of AI' says the technology will create massive unemployment and send profits soaring — 'that is the capitalist system'fortune.comexternal-linkmessage-square18linkfedilinkarrow-up143arrow-down10cross-posted to: technology@lemmy.ml
arrow-up143arrow-down1external-link'Godfather of AI' says the technology will create massive unemployment and send profits soaring — 'that is the capitalist system'fortune.com☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.ml to technology@hexbear.netEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square18linkfedilinkcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.ml
minus-square☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.mlOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 months agoI really don’t see how Hinton critiquing capitalism as the underlying problem in our society is a negative myself.
minus-squareGenXen [he/him, any]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 months agoHe said one sentence mentioning capitalism, and I honestly think that calling it a critique is a stretch.
minus-square☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.mlOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoI don’t think it’s a stretch at all. He’s coming out and plainly saying that capitalist economic relations are incompatible with mass automation. He’s saying that technology is not the problem, ergo it is capitalism that needs to go.
I really don’t see how Hinton critiquing capitalism as the underlying problem in our society is a negative myself.
He said one sentence mentioning capitalism, and I honestly think that calling it a critique is a stretch.
I don’t think it’s a stretch at all. He’s coming out and plainly saying that capitalist economic relations are incompatible with mass automation. He’s saying that technology is not the problem, ergo it is capitalism that needs to go.