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FORGET Skynet. Hypothetical world-ending artificial intelligence makes headlines, but the hype ignores what's happening right under our noses. Cheap, fast AI is already taking our jobs, we just haven't noticed. This isn't dumb automation that can rapidly repeat identical tasks. It's software that can learn about and adapt to its environment, allowing it to do work that used to be the exclusive domain of humans, from customer services to answering legal queries. These systems don't threaten to enslave humanity, but they do pose a challenge: if software that does the work of humans exists, what work will we do?
originally posted by: machineintelligence
Source: www.newscientist.com...
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FORGET Skynet. Hypothetical world-ending artificial intelligence makes headlines, but the hype ignores what's happening right under our noses. Cheap, fast AI is already taking our jobs, we just haven't noticed. This isn't dumb automation that can rapidly repeat identical tasks. It's software that can learn about and adapt to its environment, allowing it to do work that used to be the exclusive domain of humans, from customer services to answering legal queries. These systems don't threaten to enslave humanity, but they do pose a challenge: if software that does the work of humans exists, what work will we do?
You have to take a few minutes and actually read and grasp this article in New Scientist. This directly effects and impacts so many people I may well end up building cooperatives for displaced technology workers since these people are in the last year or so of their working lives and there is no way out for them. Many have not even paid off their student loans. The global economy is turning into a place where the need for human capital is simply not required for many until now good paying technical sectors. We have to turn into a creative economy not an industrial economy in order to remain relevant I think.
originally posted by: eManym
AI will eventually take over every industry. Who will buy the products produced by those industry, the robots that make the products?
originally posted by: eManym
Currently the technology is in its infant stage. I have done some work in the past with neural networks and I am familiar with rule based AI. Neural networks are a long way off from actual effective application. Nowadays they do exhibit learning and mimic the neurons of the brain. Designing a neural network to mimic the brain will require a great deal of space to occupy and have large power requirements. Eventually it will be miniaturized like every other electronic technology.
Maybe in a hundred years.
originally posted by: BoxFulder
It's been happening for years especially in the assembly line for automakers. With the advent of 3D printers whole industries could be replaced in 15 years such as clothing manufacturing for one.
originally posted by: BoxFulder
a reply to: bullcat
One day all jobs will be replaced by AI including white color jobs. Imagine lawyerbot 4.0 able to instantly cite any and All legal precedent? Even Mattock won't be able to compete.
originally posted by: BoxFulder
a reply to: bullcat
The obvious problem would be no jobs for people to feed their families. How would the economy operate if there was only production and no consumers?
originally posted by: BoxFulder
a reply to: bullcat
your idea could theoretically work except society would get real ugly before then with every industry phasing human labor out in favor of AI. It wouldn't matter if it happened gradually or overnight the effect would be the same mass unemployment and revolt.
This is my area of expertise.
originally posted by: bullcat
originally posted by: eManym
I call hyperbole and drama.
AI is NOT that advanced, not even computational intelligence, again this is my area of speciality.