It’s not the "super intelligence" that will end most of humanity, we will be long gone by then, it’s the self checkout, the robot floor cleaner that also does inventory, the robot server in your restaurant, the robot fri cook, the AI teacher, the self driving tuck and taxi, teachers, the AI accountant, lawyer, police officer! Every one of those takes someone’s job, they already have AI road equipment, AI farms, AI doctors, surgeons and dentists! What will YOU do to put food on your table? Any job you can think of can be done by a robot linked to AI! Businesses will collapse due to a customer base that can no longer afford luxuries like food and housing! You can’t pay the tax on your house? The state will gladly take it! AI and robotics must be limited BY LAW! People must be allowed to earn a living
We will have to divorce ourselves from the idea we must work to prosper. AI will need to be taken out of the hands of capitalists, so I'm hoping China gets there first.
Capitalists or Chinese totalitarians ? You think the latter would be preferable? Neither one is going away anytime soon & the goals & desires of both are certainly not necessarily for the betterment of humanity. Capitalist greed is not the main, or even only, factor as your reductive mini argument implies. There’s also power for its own sake. To control humanity would be the ultimate power, something many people & groups would love to have, to hell with the consequences for the rest of us.
There is that, but I'm very suspect about the mainstream disregard for socialist/communist countries. Capitalists are seriously invested in dissing socialism because it's a threat to them, and they own the media. Which is little more than propaganda.
The little I know about China is the Chinese are dead clever and have thundered through from peasantry to technology in the space of three decades. I've seen them replace a bridge overnight. They've created electric cars way cheaper than Tesla, not least because of low labour costs, but largely because their economy doesn't revolve around the capitalist profit motive.
America is a crumbling empire led by a serial bankrupt, rapist, felon and child abuser. Noticed how he promised to reveal all about Epstein, and then didn't?
Capitalism's fucked, and the dopey bastards fail to recognise the disemployment of the masses will result in strage fruit indeed.
If handled correctly it will relieve humanity of the drudgery of work, permitting to enjoy life more than we do. Just like universal basic income frees up people to pursue what interests them, rather than living to work.
One hopes superintelligence will work out capitalists are the single greatest problem to humanity, and strip them of their power by stripping them of their wealth.
If AI does our thinking for us what is the incentive to learn, pass exams, work for degrees. With AI running the world, mankind stands the risk of becoming lazy, unmotivated, bored, angry and dissatisfied. A dangerous combination. Stop concentrating on the problems of AI and think of what it will do to the human race.
You make a good point of course. But isn’t that the overall point of this article? Superintelligence could/would take away everything & make us slaves to whatever their algorithms need to grow &’ prosper, not ours. Humans naturally want to learn - could SAI destroy that & thus make us unthinking, incurious & vegetative? It sounds possible & would be a nightmare scenario. We’d all be simply minions to SAI.
The underlying problem is still, OK people are driven to learn, what do they do with that knowledge. The frustration comes from having slaved to learn but there is nowhere to go with the achievement. And then there are those who take the opportunity not to have to learn or work. How do they pay for food, a roof over their heads and everything else? The government would have to pay them which means higher taxes than now. Which means resentment from those who put the effort in but couldn't go anywhere, but still have to pay taxes to support those who don't. The problems are as endless as the complexity of the human mind.
Syntels boast no 'telos of survival' like one we acquired in the Serengeti, thus can be diverted from evil. A robo can report a low-battery, but not 'want' a recharge.
It’s not the "super intelligence" that will end most of humanity, we will be long gone by then, it’s the self checkout, the robot floor cleaner that also does inventory, the robot server in your restaurant, the robot fri cook, the AI teacher, the self driving tuck and taxi, teachers, the AI accountant, lawyer, police officer! Every one of those takes someone’s job, they already have AI road equipment, AI farms, AI doctors, surgeons and dentists! What will YOU do to put food on your table? Any job you can think of can be done by a robot linked to AI! Businesses will collapse due to a customer base that can no longer afford luxuries like food and housing! You can’t pay the tax on your house? The state will gladly take it! AI and robotics must be limited BY LAW! People must be allowed to earn a living
We will have to divorce ourselves from the idea we must work to prosper. AI will need to be taken out of the hands of capitalists, so I'm hoping China gets there first.
Capitalists or Chinese totalitarians ? You think the latter would be preferable? Neither one is going away anytime soon & the goals & desires of both are certainly not necessarily for the betterment of humanity. Capitalist greed is not the main, or even only, factor as your reductive mini argument implies. There’s also power for its own sake. To control humanity would be the ultimate power, something many people & groups would love to have, to hell with the consequences for the rest of us.
There is that, but I'm very suspect about the mainstream disregard for socialist/communist countries. Capitalists are seriously invested in dissing socialism because it's a threat to them, and they own the media. Which is little more than propaganda.
The little I know about China is the Chinese are dead clever and have thundered through from peasantry to technology in the space of three decades. I've seen them replace a bridge overnight. They've created electric cars way cheaper than Tesla, not least because of low labour costs, but largely because their economy doesn't revolve around the capitalist profit motive.
America is a crumbling empire led by a serial bankrupt, rapist, felon and child abuser. Noticed how he promised to reveal all about Epstein, and then didn't?
Capitalism's fucked, and the dopey bastards fail to recognise the disemployment of the masses will result in strage fruit indeed.
If handled correctly it will relieve humanity of the drudgery of work, permitting to enjoy life more than we do. Just like universal basic income frees up people to pursue what interests them, rather than living to work.
One hopes superintelligence will work out capitalists are the single greatest problem to humanity, and strip them of their power by stripping them of their wealth.
Or just kill them.
I was thinking the EXACT same thing this morning.
If AI does our thinking for us what is the incentive to learn, pass exams, work for degrees. With AI running the world, mankind stands the risk of becoming lazy, unmotivated, bored, angry and dissatisfied. A dangerous combination. Stop concentrating on the problems of AI and think of what it will do to the human race.
You make a good point of course. But isn’t that the overall point of this article? Superintelligence could/would take away everything & make us slaves to whatever their algorithms need to grow &’ prosper, not ours. Humans naturally want to learn - could SAI destroy that & thus make us unthinking, incurious & vegetative? It sounds possible & would be a nightmare scenario. We’d all be simply minions to SAI.
The underlying problem is still, OK people are driven to learn, what do they do with that knowledge. The frustration comes from having slaved to learn but there is nowhere to go with the achievement. And then there are those who take the opportunity not to have to learn or work. How do they pay for food, a roof over their heads and everything else? The government would have to pay them which means higher taxes than now. Which means resentment from those who put the effort in but couldn't go anywhere, but still have to pay taxes to support those who don't. The problems are as endless as the complexity of the human mind.
I can totally agree with your thoughts 100%!
Syntels boast no 'telos of survival' like one we acquired in the Serengeti, thus can be diverted from evil. A robo can report a low-battery, but not 'want' a recharge.