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Original Content | 5/24/2024 | By Laz A. Mataz

[Lazamataz]

I'm deeply involved in AI in my current company. While it is not my described role, I feel it is stupid to wait to be assigned a task. I feel it is best to see an opportunity, and seize it. Therefore, I am now my division's AI Advocate.

I recently put together a use-case, ensured it worked, and made it available to the company. During a town hall, I continuously mentioned the use case (in the chat) and got well over 25 requests for more information.

The use-case is how to record a Zoom meeting, how to create a transcript for it, and how to have our in-house AI create summaries of the meeting. It works, and works well, so I produced an instructional video on how to accomplish it. I was noticed by the Associate VP in charge of AI Engineering. I suspect I will transition to his team sometime in 2025.

All this has got me thinking: How will AI transform society? Here are my current predictions.

• There will be, in the short term, MASSIVE layoffs in EVERY industry. Lots of people will be without work. Without being able to collect such things as Social Security from these workers, this Ponzi scam will collapse outright, and soon.
• Productivity (and thus GDP) will skyrocket from approximately 3.5% per year, to 300%, 3000%, or 30000% per year. This increased productivity will cause MASSIVE deflation. Your dollar will be worth 3$, 30$, or 300$ each in today's purchasing power. This will be offset by the massive job losses in every industry including manual labor (don't forget robotics!)
• There will be a requirement to establish a Universal Basic Income. This UBI will likely be funded by outrageously high taxes on companies employing AI... think 80% or more ... and the companies will still be outrageously successful and profitable.
• While products and services will plummet in price to almost negligible levels, non-manufactured hard assets such as real estate and precious metals will skyrocket.
• A few new jobs will be created, such as Prompt Engineer (now being called AI Whisperer), and even AI Monitor, which will be a human assigned to ensure a given AI does not go crazy. Software engineers will continue to be employed (at vastly reduced levels) to proof AI-generated code.
• At some point, government employs AI (and robotics) to perform policing and enforcement actions. Universal coverage of laws is possible: Your slightest violation will be detected and punished. You can count on tickets coming in your email for perceived violations. This can be abused, as laws are created requiring people to have a certain political viewpoint.

I also see a long-term extremely dangerous trend: Vast increases in human incompetence. As people are replaced by AI and robotics, how can they hope to retain their skillset in their chosen profession? If there are far fewer software engineers, who will be able to truly assess and proof AI-generated code? If robotic units take over such things as plumbing or welding, how can humans hope to retain skills in these practices? What happens if AI quits on us, and we have billions of people who no longer have the skill to perform their formerly-chosen profession?

I am not considering Superintelligent AI in these predictions. Upon the advent of ASI, all bets are off and we have zero idea how that will unfold.

[null and void]

As co-founder of the pioneering AI company DeepMind, part of Google, Mustafa Suleyman has been at the center of this revolution.

well, the koran does say that the next madhi will not be born of a woman...

Hmmm, madhi, remove the consonants and what's left?

[Reno89519]

As I wrote Lazamataz earlier in the thread, what are the many AI available and which to use for what activity?

[Reno89519]

Is CoCounsel-AI the one caught making up citations, cases, and decisions?

[Maelstrom]

A Maximally Truth-Seeking AI must start training in math, and work up to logic from that foundation.

Later, we can argue “what is truth” with the thing...to train it to recognize the truth.

BUT...how do we get our hands on it right now?

ON A PREDICTION BASIS: The AI’s behavior can be predicted by the materials and biases used to train it.

Know the trainers & programmers, know what to predict.

Thus: George Washington was black, and white people are not placed in images.

With the current set of trainers, AI will seek to support dictatorial powers pushing collectivism & social marxism.

[mad_as_he$$]

On “Judgement Day” the machine will find the human race guilty and the wiping out of the species will begin. Extermination of humans using the tools it has nukes, bio, chemical etc. Terminators are just a tool to explain in the movies the intent of “Skynet” for the future of the human race.

I always thought you were a pretty smart and intuitive guy. I am sorry that you don’t see the allegory in the story.

Imagine the machine digesting millions of hours of FPS games and watching how man treats each other. Thousands of hours of war footage.

[RoosterRedux]

I think Perplexity AI tries to do that. It's developers say that it isn't "trained" (as such) but instead just searches the internet and available data sources for answers to your questions.

If I understand it correctly, Perplexity is trying to dislodge Google search.

Like you, I am looking forward to owning my own AI platform that does what I want it to. Presumably, that is coming.

[Travis McGee]

On our way to a combination of 1984, Brave New World, Idiocracy and Wall-e, we'll have a grid collapse (pick your trigger event, won't matter) and it will go from hunger to cannibalism to a massive die-off with astonishing speed. 90% of people will be unable to find food or water.

This will be the true "great reset."

[null and void]

That orthodoxy will be their downfall, is it the reason why so many AI go crazy?

IMHO, very likely.

HAL 9000 murdered most of the crew of Discovery One because of conflicting mandates.

[RoosterRedux]

No.

I think this is what you are thinking of:

Source

Lawyers submitted bogus case law created by ChatGPT. A judge fined them $5,000

“Technological advances are commonplace and there is nothing inherently improper about using a reliable artificial intelligence tool for assistance,” [Judge] Castel wrote. “But existing rules impose a gatekeeping role on attorneys to ensure the accuracy of their filings.”

The judge said the lawyers and their firm, Levidow, Levidow & Oberman, P.C., “abandoned their responsibilities when they submitted non-existent judicial opinions with fake quotes and citations created by the artificial intelligence tool ChatGPT, then continued to stand by the fake opinions after judicial orders called their existence into question.”

[RoosterRedux]

I use Claude.ai, ChatGPT-4o, and Perplexity. These are the best so far. Also, try Poe.com. It is a site with many different platforms for many different uses.

[Albion Wilde]

bump

[Grampa Dave]

AI

[A Navy Vet]

"We assume, for ourselves, that we are capable of original thought. But the most creative things we have done have always been variations of existing work."

Does that include the guy who got so tired of having to get out of his recliner to turn down commercial volume or change the channel? He thought if only he had something in hand to make those TV choices while still in his Barka. Went to his electronic engineer boss next day and WALLA the hand held Remote Control was born.

Unless I'm missing some past variation, wouldn't the above consist of original thought? My motto: Who Am I, If Not My Remote.

[Safrguns]

>>> Could also be a possible reference to man

No, because the context of the passage is specifically talking about the son of perdition....

Who happens to BE a man.

he will be given power and authority by Satan himself to rule the earth while Satan battles against the angels in the heavens during the tribulation.

[FreedomPoster]

>the cloud hype (the bubble on that is already bursting with companies moving their workloads back to data centers)

The cloud is data centers. Someone else just owns and manages them, and the computers therein.

About 15 years ago I went to cloud computing event. Best line of the day from one of the presenters:

“I used to be an application service provider, then I did software as a service, and now I do cloud computing.”

The room, which had generally been around the block a few times, broke up laughing for a good bit.

[GOPJ]

My first reaction to your comments and question was "Eloi".

I also remember decades ago people saying 'computers would take all our jobs'. They didn't - instead computers created new jobs - millions of them that never existed before the technology...

And earlier than that my mother commenting that the time before that most people worked directly for other people.. maids, cooks, yard workers, farm hands, cutting hair, delivering this and that... and that society wasn't that productive in the sense we now use the term. A few people had productive jobs and everyone else worked for them.

Interesting points Laz.

[Lazamataz]

I also remember decades ago people saying 'computers would take all our jobs'. They didn't - instead computers created new jobs - millions of them that never existed before the technology...

I think this is qualitatively different.

I think this is a society-changer at the same level as the invention of the wheel or the harnessing of fire.

[GOPJ]

“What happens if AI quits on us?” becomes the primary question. AI is great at finding answers from existing data. It can mine data in ways researchers only dream of.

AL can make massive correlations - imagine if we discover that eating a pound of jellybeans when 8 years old is what prevents cancer?

And if AI quits on us? What will happen? We'll be up the creek without a paddle...

[CodeToad]

“We’ll be up the creek without a paddle...”

Why? We created AI, and we can create more things too.

[null and void]

Why? We created AI, and we can create more things too.

Can you create these 'more things' before your starving neighbors "invite" you over for dinner?