Alternatively, are there any publications engaging with the future potential of AI in a communist society, or in the lead up to a communist society? A lot of forum discussion used to pertain to the cybersyn project in Chile. But I feel like the LLM/ML/AI discussion is currently on a reactionary back foot.
If you’ve used it, I’m curious as to what potentials do you see from it? Where is it being used effectively where are you encountering it where you go, damn that sucks.
Where it sucks: Every single chatbot and phone tree when calling a support line ends without speaking to a flesh-and-blood agent. It makes me want to throw my phone into the woods.
Where it rules: Fulfilling bullshit work requests like OKRs with AI-generated drivel. Translation work. It tutored me through a Grad-level Statistics class that was all Asynchronous.
I use diffusion models a fair bit for VTT assets for TTRPGs. I’ve used LLMs a little bit for suggesting solutions for coding problems, and I do want to use one to mass produce customized cover letter drafts for my upcoming job hunt.
Neither model class is sufficiently competent for any zero-shot task yet, or at least has too high of a failure rate to run without active supervision.
As for use in a socialist society, even the current version of the technology has some potential for helping with workers’ tasks’. Obviously, it would need to be rationed per its actual environmental and energy costs as opposed to the current underwriting by VCs. You’d also want to focus on specialized models for specific tasks, as opposed to less efficient generalized models.