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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.

[usconservative]

What I really want is AI to clean up after I have cooked a meal...a real meal...not a microwave one. Can we start there?

One of two things is the most likely outcome:

(1) You vill eat ze bugs;
(2) Soylent Green is people!

When AI fully takes over after gaslighting everyone as much as possible, you won't have to worry about cooking a real meal anymore. One way or another.

[tired&retired]

Thus the massive epidemic of Trump Derangement Syndrome.

[Lazamataz]

We lived in America’s Sweet Spot.

Maximum technology, greatest comfort, and relatively free.

All that is coming to a close.

[central_va]

For 30 years offshoring of jobs has gone on with no one on the right ever lifting a finger to stop it or lamenting the destuction of US industry. Now, AI taking jobs is big problem!!!!

LOL. Righties are just as myopic as lefties...

[central_va]

Millions of closed factory ex-workers don’t give rats a$$.

[central_va]

This is for Dune fans:

"We must negate the machines-that-think. Humans must set their own guidelines. This is not something machines can do. Reasoning depends upon programming, not on hardware, and we are the ultimate program! Our Jihad is a "dump program." We dump the things which destroy us as humans!" ― Minister-companion of the Jihad

The Butlerian Jihad, also known as the Great Revolt as well as commonly shortened to the Jihad, was the crusade against computers, thinking machines, and conscious robots that began in 201 BG and concluded in 108 BG.

Link.

[RoosterRedux]

Funny you should mention that. There’s some of that TDS right here on FR. And the TDS people on FR also display varying degrees of irrationality.

[tired&retired]

Totally agree.

[usconservative]

All that is coming to a close.

Gaslighting Example #1, right there. You believe that if you want to, you're not paying attention to what's going on.

What happened in the Bronx a few days ago is happening E V E R Y W H E R E ...

The DemoKKKrats steal another election at their own peril. Doesn't take much to see that.

[Lazamataz]

You can claim I am gaslighting, but when we lose 2024, will you finally join me on The Laz First Annual “We Are So Screwed” cruise?

I have rooms for you and your gf already booked!

[usconservative]

You can claim I am gaslighting, but when we lose 2024, will you finally join me on The Laz First Annual “We Are So Screwed” cruise?

Not only will we join you, I'll fall off the wagon and get so drunk, I'll fall overboard never to be seen again.

[poconopundit]

Google has already lost search and will struggle to be relevant in the next 3-5 years.

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Forget about the underlying IT or AI technology that powers Google today, Google has the EYEBALLS and the NETWORK to power its future.  And that's far and way what really matters.  It can quickly add whatever AI tools it can add to awesome biz model.

Why was Musk willing to buy Twitter at an insanely high price?  It's because replicating the existing network of companies, people, and relationships is extremely hard to build from scratch.

So I would not short Microsoft, X, Google, Apple, Facebook or TikTok.  They will continue to be network giants.  And software guys like IBM will steadily lose their global clout.

Ha!  Look at the network Laz has built on FR.  250 comments and counting...  No AI required, just a guy networked to a lot of smart people.

[rlmorel]

Good thread, Laz...thanks for starting it.

Over time, I have come to despise Google most of all, and have actually begun to fear its effect on mankind. I fear that effect because the vast majority of people out there who use Google view it as an unbiased font of information. And Google is heavily leveraging AI and and looking, as described in the "Selfish Ledger" video below, to use it in even broader and in my opinion, more sinister ways. So, I thus mention Google in my discussion of AI, because today, Google controls knowledge. Perhaps not by people like ME, but there are billions of people every day who swallow what Google might tell them as truth, not realizing (or not caring!) that the "Truth" is being shaped and presented to them in ways they do not understand or even comprehend.

Personally, I have some professional experience with Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its use, and one of the key points of using AI is to remove a block of human thought that might have to be used to make a decision, and to offload that "block of human thought" into an engine that can use AI to produce a result. That alone sounds bad, but AI in and of itself is not bad. Think of it as a black box where there is a relatively simply input (question) by a human, and a relatively simple output is produced by the AI machine. In the example I give below, the simple question by an ED physician might be "Who should I treat first in my Emergency Department?" could, with the assistance of AI and a LOT of other seemingly unrelated or complicated data inputs, be answered or at least have a suggestion created. So an ED physician, PA, or RN who is setting the priority or helping to set it might be aided by a AI generated list.

There are millions of options where AI might be used the help humans. For example (and I am just making this up) one of the key things that needs to be done in a hospital emergency room is to determine who needs to be seen first. We have to look at the person with a possible brain bleed before we address the person with a finger laceration that needs sutures. Highly trained and competent humans do this in their heads now, and it works generally well, but the efficiency and accuracy of that thought process can be affected by a lot of things ranging from a distracted ED physician because he is getting divorced, to a flood of trauma cases coming in.

Additionally, what might not appear to be a patient you need to examine right away could actually be a ticking time clock due to a variety of unseen things, medical history buried in the chart that is not seen, or factors in the patient's present state where the patient is heading for an unexpected crash, even though the patient is smiling at you from their chair in the waiting room.

There are various ways AI could be leveraged to help in the triage process. That smiling patient may have a complicated medical history that no human has taken the time to comb through, never mind correlating various factors that to a normal, even highly skilled ED doc, may be completely unknown. Using AI and deep learning to look for patterns unseen by humans (or not obvious to them) could generate a pick-list of priorities for the ED personnel that would use as a simple starting point.

The key is, AI and Deep Learning would used to assist a human, not make the decision. So AI has great promise in that respect.

But like all tools, there is a duality to it. In the same way that a hammer can be used to build a beautiful cabinet or to bash in someone's head, AI can be used for many useful things, as well as many bad or even evil things, as Google alludes to in its "Selfish Ledger" video.

I explain my deep concern about Google to people this way:

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If you go to a library, and you ask the librarian for a specific book, she might offer (in her role as a librarian) to find it for you.

But instead, she returns with a completely different book which she fully expects you to accept instead of the one you asked for.

And when questioned, she says you are too young for that book, it was written by a 'disreputable' person, it has bad ideas in it, or...she simply thinks you should read the book she brought back for you instead, since that is more 'appropriate' for you.

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Some people might scoff at that, but in defense I draw on Bill Whittle's criticism of Google based on their leaked internal video called The Selfish Ledger.

This video, not intended to be seen by other than the top executives at Google, was leaked to the public by an unknown employee.

Bill Whittle did a masterful video recently called The Stolen Election Part II: Stoners and Reptiles

The whole video is worth watching, but his interpretation and presentation of the Big Tech interference in the election is critical. Near the end, if you go to the 14 minute mark of the video, he discusses a video, created for top level Google executives (and meant only for their eyes) that was leaked to the public called "The Selfish Ledger".

Bill Whittle calls it the most frightening thing he has yet seen from the Left, and I agree with him.

It describes how Google views our "ledger" to be compiled by the compilation of our online activities into a "fingerprint" of who and what we are, and likens it to our DNA that identifies us, and how they wish to alter that DNA-like "Ledger" to manipulate people to "think the right way".

Chilling. Even though you sound like you understand this aspect of Google fully, I highly recommend it.

In the end-while I like to ponder the positive aspects of AI, I believe that the use for evil has far more negative ramifications in the service of evil and tyranny, and the voices wishing to discuss those are simply ignored as modern-day Luddites by starry-eyed people who think AI is going to save us.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

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[thepoodlebites]

Supernatural powers are waiting to take possession of any artificial consciousness that comes into existence.
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That’s an interesting thought. Can a machine be possessed? Demons are certainly super intelligent, far greater than any computer that we could ever build. An android built to simulate a superior leader that would guide mankind to a world of peace and harmony would be an easy sell. And would fit into certain Bible prophecies.
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It seems reasonable that AI will contribute to the rise of the Antichrist and the False Prophet. That and the introduction of Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) so that the global powers control the ability to buy and sell (third seal). It’s interesting to note the colors of the Palestinian flag are all the colors of the first four seals (white, red, black and pale green).
According to an interpretation of Daniel 7:3,4 (duel prophesy, setting aside the old kingdoms of Persia, Greece and Rome):

“Four great beasts, each different from the others, came up out of the sea. The first was like a lion, and it had the wings of an eagle. I watched until its wings were torn off and it was lifted from the ground so that it stood on two feet like a human being, and the mind of a human was given to it,”

The sea is the sea of politics, powers that rise and fall on the Earth. The lion (Great Britain?), and the Eagle (United States?), the wings torn off (the U.S. loses its position of influence?), made to stand like a human being and given the the mind of a human (AI?). The fourth beast is the approaching kingdom of the Antichrist.

[PapaBear3625]

At some point, government employs AI (and robotics) to perform policing and enforcement actions

Skynet will be created by deliberate action.

Currently, politicians cannot (safely) order soldiers to commit tyranny, war crimes, and atrocities.

The ability for a president to DIRECTLY order an AI to stage drone attacks would change this.

[Albion Wilde]

Looks like the NYC public transport system.

Great thread, btw, Laz.

[Albion Wilde]

The time is coming where the error rate of the machines in programming will start to shrink as it learns the rules, resulting in less fewer engineers and technicians.

But there will always be grammar nannies on FR...

[Jonty30]

That’s an internet mainstay and it will never become obsolete.

[Lazamataz]

Glad you found the thread useful. 😊