To think Morrisons should be boycotted over their AI adoption?

The problem isn't AI itself, it is what employers choose to do with it. Greed is the issue, always has been!

I'd hope they would be open all hours then because most greengrocers and butchers were/are only open 9-5! Also we would need to double the number of food banks if we all had to pay the prices independent shops charge. Supermarkets are bad enough.

Yes, boycott Morrisons and any shop that insists on the data harvesting loyalty cards and hold you to ransom to them by charging 3x the price if you don't have one.

I always go through the manned tils. I want to see older people in employment where they can have some social minutes by talking to strangers while scanning their items.

I want to see younger people practice their social skills etc.

I don't care to have my face on a camera while I'm scanning tampons and then be locked into an area, until I show my 'receipt', which wouldn't have been a problem if I'd have gone to a person on a till.

In fact, I have barged through those ridiculous holding pens before and I dare anyone to do anything about it. I won't be held hostage to AI and I won't ever knowingly support it especially over humanity.

not a troll. A historian

You never shop at a supermarket ? Buy all your groceries from small business , I’m seriously impressed if that’s the case

Nice to see the cuts coming from head office instead of the shop floor for once. If Morrisons is anything like the rest of retail there’s too many people sat there and not enough boots on the ground. As for boycotting them you’d never shop anywhere, digital labels will be in all supermarkets soon resulting in potential job losses so where will you go then?

I haven't been in since I saw them selling octopus for 84p.

I suspect that my day will come too when I am tossed aside for Quantum Computing, AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) and AIS (Autonomous Intelligent Systems). 😢

they exist. you're free to shop there.

Nope, complete elimination of hallucinations is mathematically impossible.

https://www.computerworld.com/article/4059383/openai-admits-ai-hallucinations-are-mathematically-inevitable-not-just-engineering-flaws.html#:~:text=In%20a%20landmark%20study%2C%20OpenAI,fundamental%20statistical%20and%20computational%20limits.&text=OpenAI%2C%20the%20creator%20of%20ChatGPT,when%20trained%20on%20perfect%20data.

Nah i like Morrisons:

-They are one of very few places I can find trousers slim enough for my kids

-They have the little kiddy shopping trolleys

As a tax advisor, I’m not sure it is actually shrinking. I think it will, but we are recruiting heavily, struggling to find candidate, busier than ever and there are huge recruitment drives at AI backed new start up firms…

Do you shop at supermarkets or independent traders?

The chatbots will get better. There are pilots out there for bots which are indiscernible from an actual human and better in the sense that they won't get bored, they are infinitely patient and polite. You'll be able to select what accent you want them to have, whether you want to speak to a male or female persona. It's just a matter of a few years.

The "evil" shareholders. You do realise your pension is invested in shares. You can go buy some shares as well. And yeah they own the company

I think it's inevitable that many companies will replace humans with AI whenever they can. I hate having to communicate with a chat bot instead of a real person. You only have to look at co pilot to see how AI can crunch numbers much more efficiently than a human can put them through spreadsheets and doesn't need a human to interpret them.

There is a question about what we, or the government could or should do about the inevitable economic shift.

The obvious one would be to train people to do the stuff AI can't. We'll always need roles like civil engineers, nurses, doctors, people to look after relationships, artists, creators, people to build things. We've spent many years training kids to be good at following instructions and we need them to be able to think creatively.

The other is our tax system will need an overhaul. What AI is doing is putting a lot of money in the hands of very few people and very few companies. So where once we had a valuable company like, say, General Electric - where they had hundreds and hundreds of thousands of employees. Now we have a company like Palantir, making many times what GE ever made, and with only a few thousand employees and vast profits going into the pockets of shareholders.

So we need to think about how we tax these companies and also what we do about shareholding and getting UK taxpayers invested into this wealth so we can get a slice of the profits.

These are all problems for government.

Legislating to stop or hold back AI won't work and would make the UK uncompetitive globally.

Of course YABU. These jobs aren't needed now. Who Morrisons choose to hire or fire is there business. If it makes the goods cheaper, I'm all for that.

In your field.

I can assure you that is not the case for many, many fields, where already huge impact is being made. Check out the impact on accountancy for example, or tax advisory. Previously solid, white-collar, lifetime jobs. Now hugely shrinking industry.

It's actually pretty easy to put some basic controls into AI systems to stop them hallucinating. The examples you cite are where people are using the free download-on-your-mobile type versions.

Every bank now uses proper, tested, enterprise-grade AI for major decision making. Every accountancy firm. Every law firm. You're hearing about rookie errors - the reality is the proper professional versions of these systems have a close to zero error rate. Wayyyy better than humans.

I know it sucks for the humans! But this is just facts I'm stating, not my opinion.

Or we could just go back to our own hunting and gathering.

Sorry but the train has very, very much left the station.

As a starter you'd need to change bank accounts and maybe... stash your money under your bed (as there are no non-AI banks now). Banks were the first adopters of AI and it's throughout the entire banking industry, doing calculations of how much you owe, making calculations on trades - everything. All of them have made redundancies of people who once would have done these types of calculations manually or written the codes and algorithms that control transactions. These are done by AI now.

You'd need to stop using your computer. Stop using social media, WhatsApp, any system - most source code is now written by AI robots. All tech firms are re-sizing and reducing their engineering workforce as so much can be done by AI now.

Don't take medicine. The pharmaceutical industry is a huge adopter of AI which is massive in terms of accelerating the development of new drugs.

Every company that operates needs to be audited. And all the auditors use AI - the big 4 have also announced huge redundancies and their grad programs have more or less ground to a halt. Once upon a time we used to have generations of trainee accountants going and writing company statements... now done by AI. All AI.

The only thing we can do is push the government to legislate and plan for what everyone does now given this has happened, much as the printing press put a generation of scribes and illustrators out of work but on a much bigger scale.

troll :)

Buhbye 😘

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Worrying.

It won’t be long before the AI systems there take over the dalek compost bin hoovers they have in stores. They may become hostile.