this post was submitted on 03 May 2025
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Haven't seen it said yet but if the CPC can get a dialectical materialist AI up and running, and plug that baby into the internet, we might get the good singularity where we still get to exist as humans but in harmony with the ultimate central planning AI. If there is still a possibility for a Star Trek space communist future, something along these lines would probably be the only way. If the westerners don't want to have a revolution, the 5 Heads Bot can just shut off the stock market, all the missile silos, etc and end imperialism for us.
The programmes called "AI" are nothing like what we actually think when we hear "Artificial Intelligence".
You know how your phone's keyboard uses what you've already written to statistically predict the next most likely word you want to type? It's like that. The "AI" programme strings together sentences by selecting the most statistically likely word, one after another. The difference is, it's statistical model is based on a copy of everything ever written on the internet, rather than just what one person happens to type on their phone.
The fact that even here, in our Marxist circles, people don't get that and keep talking about LLMs "taking over" anything makes me feel gaslighted.
Its just neo-Ludditism. They kinda bought into the capitalist marketing hype.
Not very Marxist innit
Ludditism wasn't that far from Marxism tho? I guess they only had what Lenin refers to as "trade union consciousness" rather than "true class consciousness" in that they just had revendications that involved bargaining with the capitalists rather than overthrowing them; but that's still part of the worker movement, and they did a lot. Breaking the machines that were used to replace the workers was just a part of it.
I meant buying into capitalist marketing :p
Good point besides that!
Yeah, I guess what I was really answering to was the comparison with Luddites. Luddites never thought tbe tanning machines were sentient beings taking over, and I don't think most of the people criticising AI as a threat do either. The use of the word "AI" is questionable, but it's been used for a long time to refer to even more basic programs, like pathfinders or programming videogame enemies.
It is hard to disentangle the corpo AI hype slop, the genuine attempts to move technology forward, and the public's flawed understanding of both. It be a source of many a confusion!