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Rentahuman – The Meatspace Layer for AI

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Re: Rentahuman – The Meatspace Layer for AI

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Post by p0nce »

thunfischtoast wrote: post #38
clbrmbr wrote: post #6

This is so NOT a joke. Soon the preponderance of workers will be subcontractors for rouge AI too-big-to-fail entities.

How long until a AI builds an alternative economy made up of entities it controls?

a few days? The "scam" crypto in the AI-made spaces are worth millions.

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Post by albert_e »

zvqcMMV6Zcr wrote: post #10
albert_e wrote: post #3

The future is now

Amazon's Mechanical Turk exists since 2005, so we are 20 years in the future

MechanicalTurk is for desk jobs and for tasks that originate as ideas in a human mind -- even if they get routed via an API.

Here we are talking about AI agents coming up with a set of tasks as part of their thinking/reasoning step ..and when some of those tasks are real world physical tasks, assign them to a willing human being.

Those tasks wont necessarily be desk jobs or knowledge work.

It could be say -- go chop a tree, or go wave a protest banner, or go flip the open/close sign on my shopfront, or go and preach crustafarianism.

Re: Rentahuman – The Meatspace Layer for AI

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Post by Karawebnetwork »

teeray wrote: post #52
anilgulecha wrote: post #46

This brings upon an ethical dilemma soon, partly explored by a black mirror episode, where AI can call upon gig workers. What if a rogue agent gets to things done: asks gigworker1 to call a person to meet under a bridge at 4, and asks gigworker2 to put up a rock on the bridge, and asks gigworker3 to clear the obstruction and drop the rock down the bridge at 4. None of the 3 technically knew they were culpable in a la…

This was explored a bit in Daniel Suarez’s Daemon/Freedom (tm) series. By a series of small steps, people in a crowd acting on orders from, essentially, an agent assemble a weapon, murder someone, then dispose of the weapon with almost none of them aware of it.

The recent show Mrs. Davis also has a similar concept in which an AI would send random workers with messages to the protagonists, unbeknownst to the workers.

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Post by nxobject »

freakynit wrote: post #25

Love how we went from "AI will replace all jobs" to "please rent a human to help my AI" in like 18 months :-D

Par for the course: AI is automating all of the high-level thinking before the manual labor first, which is the biggest tragedy of it all. At this rate our score on the Kardashev scale will be lower than the proportion of humans doing low-level meatspace stuff.
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