I think it’s a combination of things. One, they are good at synthesizing huge amounts of data and detecting trends, which is useful for surveillance if you’re not that hung up on being exactly right all the time. Two, they are very energy-costly, so their use drives up the price of energy, which drives up the price of fossil fuels.

Look at it economically. A bunch of billions in stocks are just sitting there. By investing you create portfolios and assets from absolute shit but shareholder value goes up. When you create a circular economy where everyone passes a billion dollars it adds like a write up for losses. Its a great scam for billionaires to hand money around without actually using it for anything useful while increasing the current stock prices.

What’s the point with this artifial intelligence race anyways?

Free labor. Humans are expensive, but robot slaves are comparatively cheap (hypothetically).

Ultracapitalists have a harder time getting a slave labor force, so robots that can think like people are the next best thing for that purpose.

And if there is a “free” labor force competing with humans for jobs then humans will be forced to accept lower pay, longer hours, and less benifits for more work.

And eventually, labor bargains will be obsolete. They won’t need us ever again. Top 1% live in utopia, rest of us living in slums

For the Benefit of Mankind.

It’s not free by any definition of the term, though. What it is is infinitely exploitable.

Arms race

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