Once AI is sufficiently advanced, your job will be to turn your robot on and ask it to do what you want.
Or will your job be to turn your robot on, and ask it what it wants you to do?
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#12This is why as I look to the future that my two year old son will inherit as an adult, I'm going to make sure that he has a really solid grasp of philosophy.
The cutting edge of today's technology and science are all digging deeply into age old philosophical questions that haven't seemed so relevant until recently. Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Reality in particular are going to beg us to answer questions about Ethics, the nature of Consciousness, and the nature of Reality.
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#14Most of the new jobs will be created by the human resistance. While this includes trainers, I think a majority of the new occupations will be military based.
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#15Given the sustaining market for artisanal wine and cheese, I think we can hold off a bit on predicting the future of work.
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#16The three categories are:
- "trainers" to train the AIs,
- "explainers" to investigate the "black box" and get insights and knowledge out of it, and
- "sustainers" to monitor and make sure that the AI behaves appropriately (think, e.g., Microsoft's Twitter bot-turned-Nazi).
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#17"We identified the emergence of entire categories of new, uniquely human jobs... trainers, explainers, and sustainers." OK, great, but... a.) these jobs will only be "uniquely human" until AI becomes self-generating and sustaining. [1] b.) as these jobs emerge, surely they don't expect all of the millions of displaced laborers, truck drivers for example, to find work in these roles. AI is increasing overall efficienc…
Be realistic about point a).
And for point b), it's always truck drivers brought up in these instances. Yes, think of the poor truck drivers. I'm sure they love doing a dull job.
If a job is replaceable by machines, it's not worth doing.
I get the worry that people will be without livelihood, but it's not as if this world has a shortage of work to be done. If we had no more work to do, sure, bring on the UBI. But we do. Clean litter out of forests, plant new forests, visit the sick. Whatever it is, there will absolutely be more work for humans in the future. People not being forced to drive trucks means they could be doing something else more useful.
And if people lament losing a particular job and having to pick up a new one, well, sorry but that's reality. I could just as soon lament not getting paid to doodle cartoons.
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#18> The Jobs That Artificial Intelligence Will Create
Won't be remotely enough to replace the jobs it destroys leaving us with mass unemployment.
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#19"We identified the emergence of entire categories of new, uniquely human jobs... trainers, explainers, and sustainers." OK, great, but... a.) these jobs will only be "uniquely human" until AI becomes self-generating and sustaining. [1] b.) as these jobs emerge, surely they don't expect all of the millions of displaced laborers, truck drivers for example, to find work in these roles. AI is increasing overall efficienc…
Be realistic about point a). And for point b), it's always truck drivers brought up in these instances. Yes, think of the poor truck drivers. I'm sure they love doing a dull job. If a job is replaceable by machines, it's not worth doing. I get the worry that people will be without livelihood, but it's not as if this world has a shortage of work to be done. If we had no more work to do, sure, bring on the UBI. But we…
You're rather missing the point; AI will create a shortage of work to do. The alternatives you mention aren't things that pay a living wage so yes, people will be without livelihoods and something akin to UBI will be necessary.
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#20"We identified the emergence of entire categories of new, uniquely human jobs... trainers, explainers, and sustainers." OK, great, but... a.) these jobs will only be "uniquely human" until AI becomes self-generating and sustaining. [1] b.) as these jobs emerge, surely they don't expect all of the millions of displaced laborers, truck drivers for example, to find work in these roles. AI is increasing overall efficienc…
Be realistic about point a). And for point b), it's always truck drivers brought up in these instances. Yes, think of the poor truck drivers. I'm sure they love doing a dull job. If a job is replaceable by machines, it's not worth doing. I get the worry that people will be without livelihood, but it's not as if this world has a shortage of work to be done. If we had no more work to do, sure, bring on the UBI. But we…
All of those jobs you mentioned are not economic, they are public works -- and there is no funding for them, so at best those are volunteer efforts, not something to put food on the table.
You're right, in theory we could have a system where we put truck drivers to work doing great stuff. Losing lots of jobs could be amazing if we had the services and programs that made our society compatible with that. But we don't, they will take a long time to establish, and the political climate appears to be reluctant to even start building them. Thus: a disaster.