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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)

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Post by ori_b »

saberience wrote: post #3

ChatGPT, 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.

Why would we argue if the machine is better at knowing what's worth doing? Why wouldn't we ask the machine to decide, and then do it?

Re: Will AIs take all our jobs and end human history, or not? (2023)

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Post by scottyah »

wincy wrote: post #7
alexjray wrote: post #6

Even 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.

Seems like entertainers/influencers are doing the best.

Re: Will AIs take all our jobs and end human history, or not? (2023)

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Post by sramam »

wincy wrote: post #7
alexjray wrote: post #6

Even 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.

What fraction of the remaining population would be able to pay for these services?

Re: Will AIs take all our jobs and end human history, or not? (2023)

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Post by IncreasePosts »

b112 wrote: post #8
alexjray wrote: post #6

Even 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?

Considering the lengths many people go to help preserve nature and natural areas, yes, I would sayany people care about the uniquely ant experience.

Re: Will AIs take all our jobs and end human history, or not? (2023)

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Post by AlexandrB »

b112 wrote: post #8
alexjray wrote: post #6

Even 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?

I think it's academic because I suspect we're much further from AGI than anyone thinks. We're especially far from AGI that can act in physical space without human "robots" to carry out its commands.

Re: Will AIs take all our jobs and end human history, or not? (2023)

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Post by autokad »

saberience wrote: post #3

ChatGPT, 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.

back in 2023 when this article was written, you'd get downvoted into oblivion on hacker news for using AI to summarize a very long article/post.

Re: Will AIs take all our jobs and end human history, or not? (2023)

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Post by mips_avatar »

Outside of America people aren't really stressed about AI. Like you go to Vietnam or Vienna they mostly just think that they will have a good life with AI. It's uniquely American to believe that your life will end when AI takes your job.

The problem isn't the AI it's that your access to basic rights is intermediated by a corporate job. American's need to decenter their self worth from their jobs. Like when I quit Microsoft I literally thought I was dying, but that's all an illusion from the corporations.

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