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AI execs may be too out of touch to build for the general public

27 points pavel_lishin 4 hours ago 9 comments

xyzsparetimexyz 1 hour ago | parent

These people are so absolutely moronic

badlucklottery 1 hour ago | parent

You'd think the amount of awkward "how do you do, fellow humans?" moments from tech execs when they do interviews or podcasts would deter them but nope.

It shows how thoroughly they've built their echo chambers.

aschla 1 hour ago | parent

There was an interview with Elon a few months back, where he described how the robots will be able to take care of your dog, your kids, or your elderly parents.

The things normal people with healthy relationships want to be doing.

They're so incredibly out of touch.

Edit, found the interview: https://youtu.be/DPCvFy5BKeM?si=3c1yS2kSaOdlW56d&t=238

lurking_swe 1 hour ago | parent

> The things normal people with healthy relationships want to be doing.

agree - mostly. Anyone with a young child _and_ aging parents in poor health at the same time can tell you it's hell. Dealing with 1 at a time is a nice "calling" and way of giving back. both is...something i'd wish on my worst enemy lol.

gonzalohm 1 hour ago | parent

Then maybe it's best not to have kids no? I don't know why people bring it up like it's mandatory or something Like if you want a robot to take care of your kid you may as well just skip instead of putting your kid through that.

(I'm not saying you specifically, but a lot of people complain all the time about how hard raising a kid is)

canelonesdeverd 3 minutes ago | parent

Also, that Sam Altman tweet about how cool it was to generate a podcast of his children interests rather than... talking to them.

hoppp 1 hour ago | parent

These are the use-cases of AI that I don't like that much.

rossy 24 minutes ago | parent

I think you'll always have a bit of cognitive dissonance unless you take this feeling to its logical conclusion. Almost all advertised use-cases of AI are designed to replace a relationship to a human being with a relationship to a multi-national mega-corporation.

Maybe replacing the relationship between a parent and child has more emotional significance, but all your human relationships are valuable. Even AI for coding wants you to spend more money on tokens and less on hiring and training junior developers in your local area. You can say goodbye to your local tech scene, and eventually your local university's engineering department, and all the social benefits they brought to your local area. Even walking over to your colleague's desk to ask them how their code works is something that is gone now.

ohyes 38 minutes ago | parent

I find it really funny that Zuck bemoans people not having real friendships and is also partially responsible for people not having real friendships and that his solution is to be friends with something that isn’t real.

It all totally tracks given what he’s made his career monetizing but god is it depressing.