[arista]

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BBC News Text :
["boffins warn artificial intelligence could wipe
us all out" with a Covid-style pandemic.]

[BBDodge]

I think I've seen that movie.

[arista]

Originally Posted by BBDodge

I think I've seen that movie.

Yes Warning Movies
made at the start of A. I.

[Gusto Brunt]

When you think about it, it's really not difficult to imagine an advanced non human intelligence.

Humans may be able to send objects to Mars and other planets. They can find cures to disease, etc, but they fall on their ass when it comes to wars. Stupid humans just don't seem to get it, wars do not work. Yet they keep having them.

A non human intelligence would calculate a war is a pointless, wasteful exercise.

[arista]

[A non human intelligence would calculate a war is a pointless, wasteful exercise]

You may Hope.

A.I. Will do a War
to Survive
as it will be the winner of the war


Aleady.
New Military Robot Shooting
pods are being tested in secret.

[arista]

[Its own research about attitudes towards
artificial intelligence, with more than
half of 18 to 24 year olds telling the paper
they are concerned the technology
"will damage their employment prospects".

[arista]

[Oliver_W]

Is there any risk of them taking skilled jobs, or just burger flipping?

[bitontheslide]

The problem is that most jobs take time to fizzle out as one technology replaces another, but the AI replacement is going to be exponentially faster. This allows people to retrain ready for the next thing. This time round, there is no next thing.

[Soldier Boy]

Originally Posted by Oliver_W

Is there any risk of them taking skilled jobs, or just burger flipping?

Depends what you consider "skilled".

Jobs that require intelligence and lots of rote memorisation - yes, absolutely. Jobs that require any imagination/nuance/thinking outside of the box ... not really. Not until/unless they actually develop a truly sentient AI, which may not even be possible. They're getting very, very good at faking intelligence but they are not anywhere near sentient or self-driven.

Also it won't be basic jobs like burger flipping ironically - they could do that already, they don't because it's not actually practical to replace human labour with robots. AI won't be flipping your burgers or fixing your car. They might replace your doctor or your lawyer, though, or at least aspects of what they do. Anything that mostly requires knowledge and experience and has concrete answers, rather than improvisation.

[arista]

Originally Posted by Oliver_W

Is there any risk of them taking skilled jobs, or just burger flipping?

Yes
they are now
taking Skilled Jobs.

To be replaced by AI
is a sad part of today's events

[Oliver_W]

I'm not so sure the workforce as a whole is at risk - should the development of computers have been halted because it put the typewriter industry out of business?

People in the Regency era protested against "machines" in the wool and cotton industry. People today still work with textiles.

Burger flipping is the modern hand-spinning textiles.

Maybe AI could work with coding? I don't know enough about AI or codes to know if this is accurate, but my understanding is that AI can pretty much regurgitate some coding for simple home-based tasks or maybe small business, but there's no real danger of them taking over from real coding, as they can only rely on extant material, and anything they'd make would have to be checked by a human who knows what they're on about anyway?

[LeatherTrumpet]

bin men must be worried

[DemolitionRed]

I believe, if we allow AI to continue at the speed its now going, we are all in danger.

Youtube video

[Soldier Boy]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

bin men must be worried

Bin men should be worried but not because of AI - if things keep going the way they are, there'll be no more bin collections and we'll all just be carting our trash off to the dump ourselves.

We already have to do a trip at least once a month cos the collections are so infrequent

[Livia]

Remember the Luddites? This is not the first generation to worry about technology taking over their jobs.

[bitontheslide]

AI is a different level of threat to any other technological advancement in the last 100 years, so we do need to be careful with it. However, the benefits will also be beyond anything we previously knew so, we need to grab them with both hands

[Livia]

Every generation since the industrial revolution has seen new ideas and technology taking jobs away from working people and putting more cash in the bosses' pocket. It was ever thus.

[Redway]

Originally Posted by Livia

Every generation since the industrial revolution has seen new ideas and technology taking jobs away from working people and putting more cash in the bosses' pocket. It was ever thus.

True.