People also die in droves daily with human drivers. The important point is whether self driving cars are safer than the average human, not whether they eliminate all accidents entirely.
Doesn't matter what the goal is, the context of this particular discussion is that AI is benefiting at least some people by making their lives easier. And one guy who's trying to argue 'so what, it only matters if productivity goes up'.
AI has automated some mundane task that wasn't particularly important, and now they can spend their time doing something more interesting.
That absolutely sounds like a win to me. Why is productivity gains the only thing that's important? QoL is what matters. Unless you're a capitalist overlord.
You're getting direct examples of people its helped, and you keep brushing it off and asking what about everybody else. You're obviously not going to get a single answer that affects everybody, and why do small successes not matter?
His analogy about turning off AI is bloody weird. Pick almost any technology from history. Chances are if you had turned it off a few short years after it was first introduced, it wouldn't have had any major impact. Why would AI be any different?
Oh yeah I'm not trying to accuse you of anything, don't worry. Just throwing out some info a lot of people aren't aware of to contribute to the conversation.
Bad assumption on my part. Anyway yeah. Just an FYI since you were recommending it as a security practice. I have actually contacted European companies and had them remove geoblocks in the past by pointing out they were (probably unknowingly) breaking the law.
Btw I'm not sure if you're aware, but this behaviour (blocking based on geographic ip) is literally illegal in the EU. I'm aware it's not applicable to you since you're in the states, just an FYI.
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