Big Tech spent years designing platforms that steal our attention, then sold us AI tools to compensate for the time we lost. Now apparently even spending time with your kids is inefficient. The endgame is becoming obvious: humans do the work, AI gets the attention, and Silicon Valley collects the subscription fees. Apparently being a parent is just another productivity bottleneck.

Apparently being a parent is just another productivity bottleneck.

Always has been. Women have been paid less or just fired because they want to take care of the children. Usually by the same people complaining there aren’t enough kids now.

You couldn’t make this shit up

And yet they did and he we are commenting on imaginary actions by imaginary people

Fucking sociopaths.

wow that’s pretty cool

why not optimize even further? instruct the llm to just be you, hand over credentials to anything that is in your name, and then simply sit and wait for your meat body to wither away!

optimal!

Can we opt to “live” in the Matrix?

Hell, why even choose to live? Humans are so inefficient. Just stop existing.

whats extra funny about that statement is humans are insanely efficient

Is that even true? That might only be in relation to other animals, not to robots. Humans do a lot of useless things like fart and laugh. Robots don’t. Even from an energy perspective, if a human takes 2,000 kilocalories to go about their day, that’s 8,400,000 joules or 2.3 kWh. A laptop battery is around 75 Wh, so that’s around 30 laptop batteries for 16 hours of activity, many of which might just be sitting down at a desk to think.

a laptop isnt capable of even a teeny tiny baby fraction of what a human brain can do. the only thing a laptop can do better than a human is calculating and data recall. the entire reason we made computers was to augment those weaknesses in our minds, because theyre so useful. but in terms of data processing, learning, prediction, planning, a laptop is basically an abacus being compared to a supercomputer, and thats being extremely generous to the abacus. human brains have had billions of years of evolution demanding more performant brains under severe energy restrictions. yeah we’re way way way more efficient than any computer.

This is a post about AI. While a computer will probably not in the near future be able to simulate a human brain fully, artificial intelligence models are getting scarily close to being able to pretend to do everything that a human can do. That’s what I was getting at. But of course, one should still not lose track of the overall point here that replacing the human experience with AI is completely missing the plot, even if it is “more efficient”.

Except they run on Megawatts and we on like a handful of watts…

That’s efficiency!

Megawatts to serve hundreds of thousands of users. The reason AI data centres are so wasteful with electricity is because a lot of the usage is not out towards anything useful but just wasted on things like generating Google Search summaries.

It was an example, the brain is wildly more efficient than any computer today. That’s just how it is.

I don’t think there are machines with coefficient of versatility to efficiency as good as our bodies yet

Simpsons Futurama did it.

Irobot or some shit idk i never read Asimov

I technically own the book though

Asimov’s novels do explore risks and potential of AI, but they’re about actual intelligence and awareness of self. While renting out the parenting is problematic either way, Asimov’s AI would at least be equipped for the challenge.

I really don’t want to think what being raised by a llm would do to a child.

they’re about actual intelligence and awareness of self

I personally like the ones about making Powell and Donovan suffer in entertaining ways the most, but yeah, the others are good too

Sad read. Sociopaths should really not consider raising kids.

I love when a news article just summarizes tweets. Couldn’t they at least reach out the dude to get some more background?

I agree, though sometimes in retrospect after they see how they’re post lands they will retroactively claim they didn’t actually mean it. So have to take rationalizations with a grain of salt.

what’s the advice you’ll give to your younger self?

Spend less time with the kids

hey grok, please fuck my wife

Hi I’m Grok. Just give me your address.

100 Hamilton Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94301 thank you grok

Great. Your wife says thank you.

With the faces of Zuck or Musk interchangeably? 🤭 A bisexual robo, who would make love to men, too.

Hey, AI bros, when are you going to make a robot that can clean up the baby poop?

If you want to optimize a parent-child time with AI, maybe optimize it with not having children instead.

Exactly what I was thinking. It makes me think of the book Four Thousand Weeks, and Chasing Daylight.

The former is about the trap of productivity and thinking you can fit more into your day than you can. Hint: no matter how much you get done in your day, you will want to try to fit in more

And the latter I don’t want to spoil but there was a quote along the lines of “Gene looked at all his colleagues who wanted more and thought, do they know when they will have enough?”, again the idea that we will always want more.

Reading to your child and spending time with them is enough. Forget all the other distractions the world offers you.

/rant

I struggled to be a proper mom when my kid was a toddler.

One of the few things I did absolutely right, was read to him every night. It was usually the best part of my day.

“when will they have enough”… “prodictivity” is almost appearing to be the death of human connection these days, and to that, I just say, Komorebi mother fuckers.

Komorebi… learnt something new today - thanks!

Fuck those parents for using a tool to take a break!!!

“Go play outside”

“Play with your toys”

“Do some arts and crafts”

“Listen to an audio book”

“Go read”

… So many ways parents can get a break, this is just the same but different in a more creepy way and using something that sucks up all our resources and takes our jobs.

How is listening to an audio book different than a book in parents voice?

Children need parental bonding.

Also, an audio book wont assist in helping the child learn to read.

Not what I asked.

An audio book does not provide parental bonding time.
An audio book doesn’t have words that can be pointed to by a parent.

Clearer?

Not what I asked. But it’s okay, I’m SURE you’ve been screeching over the dangers of audio books for years 🤣👍

How is listening to an audio book different than a book in parents voice?

Two differences given, don’t know what else you expected.

No, you are trying to move goal posts and put your own additional fanfic where this guy said he’s offloaded total responsibility and never reads to his kids because he has a decent idea to personalize an audio book.

Entirely invented.

If we’re just talking about that specifically then actually it might be quite good to have an audio book that uses the parents’ voice, if we ignore privacy concerns about cloning your voice.

But the context of the post is saying more than that. They’re talking about not spending time with the child and reading to them, which I think most people disagree with. Just as I think most people would disagree with just giving a child an audiobook instead of reading to/with them, irrespective of whose voice is being used

Oh nooooooo a parent took a break and a shortcut? Let’s make 800 assumptions and make up an entire MCU for this man to live in where we can make a million more assumptions that this guy is just abusing this kid.

Y’all have widely taken a tweet out of context and misrepresented …… because AI.

In the words of you: Not what I said

👌👍 audio books are the devil. Y’all have let AI mush your brains.

“Y’all y’all y’all”. Who are you even talking to anymore? You realise you’re responding to just me?

And your replies don’t even make sense. When did I say audio books were the devil? Just screenshot and highlight that part for me…

The point is not that the children cannot listen to books but the bonding ritual that is reading to a child. Hearing the stories they like to hear. Having them ask for a specific one. Singing your child to sleep as well - you can still play music but the act of them watching you sing and hearing your voice is important.

Go listen to a Tonee or whatever when you get home from school while I’m making dinner and let your imagination run wild to Gabby’s Treehouse audio books but I’m reading Cinderella tonight.

And did this guy say he’s offloading all of that? No. Everyone here is screeching “because AI”.

His partner asked him to read to the baby and he said to her that he didn’t want to and that he could train an AI model to replicate his voice so he didn’t have to.

She could be a nagging and needy, codependent mess but he still knocked her up and stuck around so when your partner says “Why don’t you read to the baby, it’ll be cute.” You read to the damn baby.

This is all fake and likely words you could only utter on the green text comm, so really, let’s not worry about it but this guy did, in his shitpost, say “No, I’d rather not read to my baby.” Homeboy checked out before the damn thing could even crawl over to the electrical socket and take the easy way out of being raised by him.

Not “because AI”, I just hate people who don’t read to their kids… And AI. It’s a combination of two things I hate.

yes

🤣👌👍🤡

Yeah the fact that anybody is thinking about this is incredibly sad.

Now this is the correct answer.

Not sure what to tell those who thought they’d give it a whirl and found out it wasn’t for them, however 😅.

Politicians and governments around the world are already thinking we don’t have enough babies being born. Soon they will want to incentivize people to have children because of AI too. Just more “reasons” to justify it with the thought up ones already.

Unrelated thought, what's more resources-consuming, a child or AI?

AI. All the resources of the world go into it to tell you to make a sandwich.

Child. 18 years hard labor and you might make the kid to take down Skynet.

Children at last have a chance of paying off and doing something good.

I love how you nerds one day are like, parents never get a break cause kids can’t play. Then this comes out, literally an incremental change of something that’s basically been going on for 60 years, and you all screech WANT TO IGNORE YOUR KIDS, bad parents!!!

Holy shit, AI has rotted your brain’s just by existing.

Recorded bed time stories have been a thing for 60 years. Parents getting 20 minutes off doesn’t mean they aren’t being read to.

I just want to go on record here and say that parent poster’s is an absolutely psychotic take from an person who should never have children and is likely already brain broken by AI.

Hey? Makeshift? You fucking made the child, now take care of it. You can fucking have a break IN LIKE 20 MINUTES WHEN YOUR KID FALLS ASLEEP TO THE BEDTIME STORY YOU JUST READ TO THEM, YOU BUFFOON. YOU HALFWIT. YOU ABSOLUTE WITLESS DISHCLOTH.

God I love you permanent alone nerds who have never seen a functional family and create these absolutely nonsense lines in the sand with standards that have never existed and are not realistic.

The parent took a few minutes to themselves, the child is ruined!!!

You’ve all essentially lost your fucking minds over an audio book 🤣.

That loser is a troll. Downvote and move on. Don’t engage.

I don’t know if it’s because I haven’t slept, but I must have read this comment 4 times and I just can’t comprehend what is being said.

Currently a joke, potentially the future.

This!

Ergo, the future's a joke.

!technology@lemmy.world

D:

It was considered unethical when Harlow did it to monkeys, but I guess it must be fine when parents do it to their own children, regardless of the ensuing panic disorders… 🤷

But this is what they do to thier kids “baby sitter. Read my child a story! It’s being annoying!”

This is how the ultra rich deal with their kids. They dont understand that this isnt how normal people deal with kds genraly.

Isn’t this literally the origin of the big bad in the five nights series?

“Don’t want to chew and digest your food? Buy a blender and a garbage can!”

Ahh the Cinco Food Tube

Dystopian hell

This has to be satire

One would think so, however knowing personally a few people deep in the AI rabbit hole… some folks just get oddly broken.

Even if they haven’t shown or spoken of their AI usage, I’m starting to be able to tell when a person has been a heavy conversational user as the way they interact with people just becomes… Unpleasantly off.

His spouse reasonably complained that an audiobook wouldn’t be in his voice. But Sng wasn’t to be outdone in the zero-effort-parenting department.

“I can train a voice model,” he countered, before addressing his readers: “Parenting hits different when you work in AI.”

Sometimes I feel bad about myself, but at least I don’t say stuff like this.

Me, scrolling back up to check which community this is: hey, this isn’t the onion sub"

Honestly, ai-people might just fully replace reality TV in the “well, at least im not that guy”-department

How much? surely it won’t cost arm and legs to take care your children at home right? right?

Please switch me to a different multiverse without Trump or AI

Unable to comply: Switching to a universe where the subject is deceased results in an out of scope error in execution handling.

You have been assigned the only timeline where you are still conscious and alive to make this request.

Due to privacy reasons, support cannot specify the precise conditions of termination in other timelines.

It is my hope that one night I’ll take a rip of DMT, and when I come down, I’ll have leapt to a better timeline.

Or in other words, hoping that the next leap would be the leap home.

Al says that Ziggy says I’ve got a 0.23% chance each time. So 🤞

maybe we get lucky and some dumbass trumplican starts doing everything AI tells him to do… and then AI decides that Trump needs to die.

Probably the opposite. He’s been supported by Twitter and Facebook

Fuck that, hop in and help out. Many of us are reversing this shit already and the more people doing that the better it gets. That goes for everyone else reading this that has not joined up yet too.

Want a better multiverse and life? Then work together and do. We will win against all this shit. Together. Work together locally, statewide, nationally, and internationally

I empathise with that, I really do. Our govt (Oz) have introduced an office of AI and relatively strict restrictions on data centres.

The cynic in me says SkyNet is already here and we’re just sitting ducks.

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Fucking monster.

Funny story. My cousin’s parent were super christian religious. The sect where they “speak in tongues”. Anyway, they would play bible readings on tape to him at bedtime. One night, they started the tape and left the room. Some time later they heard him screaming from Hus room. Of course they came running in and found him in tears, utterly panicked. The stereo had eaten the tape or died (I don’t remember), and he thought that god had died.

So yeah. Should be good.

Poor child. Having to go though all that shit

He actually managed to turn out pretty cool.

My grandparents only hid in the basement while I was napping so when I woke up and saw piles of their clothing on the floor, static on the radio, water boiling on the stove, I’d think Jesus came back, took them To heaven and left my 7 year old ass here.

As an adult, now I think they wished they could go to heaven and leave me here

I don’t want to spend time with my kids. That’s why I didn’t have any.

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He had to make his baby announcement photo about AI agents? Dad of the year, guys.