Will AIs take all our jobs and end human history, or not? (2023)
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Will AIs take all our jobs and end human history, or not? (2023)
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Re: Will AIs take all our jobs and end human history, or not? (2023)
#3ChatGPT, please summarise this long essay by Stephen Wolfram into a couple of pithy sentences:
TLDR: AI won’t “end work” so much as endlessly move the goalposts, because the universe itself is too computationally messy to automate completely. The real risk isn’t mass unemployment—it’s that we’ll have infinite machine intelligence and still argue about what’s worth doing.
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#5AI is evolving so fast, and you post an article from 2023?
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#6Even if they automate all our current jobs uniquely human experiences will always be valuable to us and will always have demand.
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#7Even if they automate all our current jobs uniquely human experiences will always be valuable to us and will always have demand.
Sounds like it’s time to become a Michelin Star chef. Or a plumber.
Re: Will AIs take all our jobs and end human history, or not? (2023)
#8Even if they automate all our current jobs uniquely human experiences will always be valuable to us and will always have demand.
For AI, yes.
For AGI? Do you care about uniquely ant experience? Bacteria?
Why would AGI care? Which now runs the planet?
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#9More food chains keep opening up even when there is plenty of food available. The pie just gets bigger. Every tech shift was supposed to "end work" and yet here we are, busy with jobs that didn't exist 20 years ago.
The real issue isn't jobs dying. It's who gets the money from all this and whether new needs show up fast enough to give people something to do. With software we don't really know the limit yet, unlike food where your stomach tells you when to stop.
Re: Will AIs take all our jobs and end human history, or not? (2023)
#10More food chains keep opening up even when there is plenty of food available. The pie just gets bigger. Every tech shift was supposed to "end work" and yet here we are, busy with jobs that didn't exist 20 years ago. The real issue isn't jobs dying. It's who gets the money from all this and whether new needs show up fast enough to give people something to do. With software we don't really know the limit yet, unlike fo…
In the long run transitions like this work out and new jobs show up, but the people who had the old jobs don't always make the jump or keep equivalent pay.
Could be it shakes out in a generation or two, of course.