OpenAI’s new anti-jobs program – The company’s Stargate project will create lots of opportunities. But not for humans.

From the article

>Mass automation has happened before, at the start of the Industrial Revolution, and some people [sincerely expect](https://www.thomsonreuters.com/en/insights/articles/benefits-of-artificial-intelligence-ai) that in the long run it’ll be a good thing for society. (My take: That really, really depends on whether we have a plan to maintain democratic accountability and adequate oversight, and to share the benefits of the alarming new sci-fi world. Right now, we absolutely don’t have that, so I’m not cheering the prospect of being automated.)

>But even if you’re more excited about automation than I am, “we will replace all office work with AIs” — which is fairly widely understood to be OpenAI’s business model — is an absurd plan to spin as a jobs program. But then, a $500 billion investment to eliminate countless jobs probably wouldn’t get President Donald Trump’s imprimatur, as Stargate has.

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Stargate won’t be able to achieve this. These guys are hoping by having a lot of GPUs their models will get better, which is why wishful thinking. Unless someone finds some kind of new revolutionary theory, we are not going to get AGI.

AI will certainly reduce the amount of employees needed to certain things (like programmers) but it won’t be able to replace them.