Posts by Excelziore

Bernie Sanders clocks in with 4-day workweek bill thanks to AI and productivity tech

Imagine how much tax revenue would have increased if salaries had increased at the same rate as productivity. What we need is a 32 hour work-week and salary increases to pay for all the things that society needs. That might require some...ahem...reallocation though...

AI-generated bug reports are seriously annoying for developers

The net productivity impact of AI?

It will be interesting to see what the actual net productivity impact of AI will be?

Something like: Net AI productivity = AI productivity boost minus AI productivity waste. It's not clear that it will be a net positive for all use cases...

What the AI copyright fights are truly about: Human labor versus endless machines

Copyright is related to human effort, no human effort, no copyright...

Copyright is intended to incentivize human effort. People (or the companies that represent them) get a temporary monopoly on their work so that they are fairly compensated which enables them to contribute more effort to create more new work.

Work by animals can't be copyrighted. They aren't humans. AI is no different than a monkey or a Dog in this regard, i.e. work produced by AI shouldn't have copyright protection.

Since this isn't completely settled yet, we aren't ready to have a discussion to decide about using copyrighted material for training AI, compensation, licensing, etc.

Swedish Tesla strike goes international as Norwegian and Danish unions join in

Who is being reasonable in the conflict?

What I have read is that the union, IF metall, has given Tesla at least 3 options that it finds acceptable:

1) Negotiate a collective agreement between Tesla and the union.

2) Tesla joins an employers association and lets them negotiate with the union on Tesla's behalf.

3) Tesla outsources it's employees to a third-party that has a collective agreement.

Collective agreements set a "floor". Employers can always offer better terms and conditions if they so choose.

Tesla has apparently said no to all three options. The union started this discussion in 2017 and decided to take action in 2023.

In other news Tesla Sweden apparently owes a local vendor more than 4 million SEK. Tesla has refused to pay the invoice which has been sent to a collection agency.