white collar work schedules are based on blue collar production cycles and there's no match. Most ppl in offices have about 4 hrs worth of actual work to do on a busy day, 2 hrs on average. I think the workday needs to be shorter but that won't happen either. It has most of a chance than AI music though lol


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I really think you're wrong. Thats a short sighted view.

There are obviously infinite applications for AI in business. Its not a fad that will just go away, it will be incorporated more and more into daily tasks to lower the bottom line. Its not even that AI would instantly replace human work, but over time it can take over a lot of the workload. And yeah eventually it will become difficult for humans to compete.

Just as a thought experiment, what do you think the world will look like in 20 years, or 100 years?
Application and possiblity are two entirely different things. For one, companies don't like changing their processes and you'll have a hard time finding a process that already hasn't been technically innovated away. I'm an early adapter for technology that helps me do what I do, but that's a rare personality type and in an organization that voice loses everytime. We really don't need a human to take orders at resturants, we really don't need the home to prep the food and we don't need a human to hand it to you. In a logical world, this wouldn't exist. But humans aren't logical and a lot of the 'innovation for innovation sake' banks on a narrow understanding of human motivation and wants.

Companies use the amount of people they control (employ) as a metric of success. At a certain point you're asking someone who's a multi-millionaire to penny pinch by having a robot do something. Because she/he has money already, the success metric of leading humans becomes a greater emphasis. Most companies can be 2 robots and a computer but the irrational desire to walk into an office (also outdated) and see the humans you control working towards your betterment is why a lot of ppl start businesses. Otherwise they can just take their money and leverage/speculate which they do too. If humans were logical most business owners would liquidate their companies and make their money their business, not AI out the company or process.


I think there will of course be uses for this stuff but the whole 'we're going to be in the metaverse' 'we're going to have AI girlfriends' 'we're going to AI concerts' fake futurism is the modern equivalent of this