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WarGamer

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4. This is why a progressive Government needs to lead into the future of AI...

Reply to True Dough (Reply #2)

Thu Dec 25, 2025, 06:56 PM

Dec 2025

There needs to be an "AI dividend" paid to all adults... or at least those in lower income strata. (UBI)

AI has a greater potential for good than anything in the history of the planet.

The logical endpoint is an end to the scarcity of goods.

When AI is running the combines, running the farm... corn yields go up XX%

But that means a functioning government to make sure the benefit hits the average person.

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How AI works [View all] canetoad Dec 2025 OP

In other words... it's an accelerated version of the last 1000 years. WarGamer Dec 2025 #1

AI has the potential to uncover some groundbreaking health treatments, True Dough Dec 2025 #2

This is why a progressive Government needs to lead into the future of AI... WarGamer Dec 2025 #4

Agreed. True Dough Dec 2025 #6

We don't have that government currently, the AI bros have never talked seriously about sharing their highplainsdem Dec 2025 #10

Putting that money directly into medical research would be much more likely to produce results. highplainsdem Dec 2025 #5

It's being developed by all the wrong people for all the wrong reasons? snot Dec 2025 #20

No, genAI is turning Homo sapiens into brainless twits dependent on hallucinating chatbots and highplainsdem Dec 2025 #3

I disagree. WarGamer Dec 2025 #7

So what? Chatbots have a very high error rate. You don't know if any of that's true unless you check highplainsdem Dec 2025 #9

the whole IP theft thing... WarGamer Dec 2025 #12

Human and AI learning are quite different. And btw, that's IP theft, not AI theft. And the AI companies know highplainsdem Dec 2025 #17

Isn't the VAST majority of LLM taught on public source data? WarGamer Dec 2025 #18

Look up the difference between public and public domain. What isn't in the public domain is highplainsdem Dec 2025 #21

For one thing, when considering a claim for copyright violation, snot Dec 2025 #22

google can't, but wikipedia can, and better WhiskeyGrinder Dec 2025 #13

I agree with the phrase canetoad Dec 2025 #15

there we agree... 100%. It's a propagandists dream. WarGamer Dec 2025 #16

No, it's not. WhiskeyGrinder Dec 2025 #11

Except the size and scope of what it can take in is greater EdmondDantes_ Dec 2025 #14

Consider that "dog food" usonian Dec 2025 #8

I personally have found AI to be a very useful tool anciano Dec 2025 #19

Absolutely. In the last few weeks I had to dispute a medical bill ... rog Dec 2025 #23

Excellent! anciano Dec 2025 #24

Same here -- they're fine if you're aware of its limitations fujiyamasan Dec 2025 #27

Just waiting for the bubble to rapidly disinflate. nt BootinUp Dec 2025 #25

Looking forward to it. highplainsdem Dec 2025 #28

I too have had an incredibly positive experience using AI. AI can find me information far quicker than Google. Doodley Dec 2025 #26