Posted on 05/24/2024 5:37:58 AM PDT by 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.
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.
>You can see it already. People are stopping to think on their own and relying on technology.
I’ll take the opportunity to point out that it was recently reported that those engaging in regular marijuana use now exceed those engaging in regular alcohol use.
People are stopping to think because they’re stoned.
Interesting! Thank you for that!
The series “Connections” talks about the “Technology Trap”, man simply won’t understand the technology and what it does. And when it suddenly isn’t available, society will quickly fall apart.
The smartest people in the world were born during the International Geophysical Year I understand.
I’m not perfect, but its rhythm.
Well, Man is made and designed to work.
Take away Work and you take away Man.
Hah, I was post 76... “Well by 76, we’ll be A-Ok!”
See, I think that’s my biggest fear.
Humans are inherently lazy. If they stop using their skills and their brains and let AI do all the heavy lifting... we devolve.
There won’t be UBI because the surplus population will be culled, per Agenda30. There will be slaves who will be allowed to live in corporate/government owned (think fascism) shelters, be issued one set of clothing, and given bugs to eat, but I wouldn’t call those things income by any means.
Well now you're getting personal. I worked hard to get this way. Everyone was pushing me to eat healthy and exercise. It's easy to give into peer pressure but I stood my ground. Fast food and lots of it. The more processed the better. The produce aisle in a grocery store is like a crucifix to a vampire for me. Speaking of which, I avoid sunlight (toxic Vitamin D). Watching low level television, staring at my phone or playing games on it or bingeing on junk food got me into this shapeless flabby unskilled blobs of flesh and I'm not giving it up.
Skynet has become self-aware. At 4:32 pm, it will launch a massive nuclear attack on Russia.
The day will come, when people who know how to farm and grow food will be the most sought-after people.
To a great extent, that’s utter caca. How people honestly have the ability, between work and family and personal responsibilities, have the time to be on a treadmill acquiring four year degrees every four years for the rest of their lives?
IN the end, for most of us, it’s going to be impossible to keep caught up and it’s going to result in most of us losing our jobs in the end.
Skynet. It is inevitable. Everything ever “invented” by man has been weaponized.
Politics and entertainment.
I'm worried about that too, but I would hope that the Powers that be look at the history books and realize that actively killing billions is bad PR.
If they want to cull the population, I'd simply made conceiving much more difficult. Think: A covid-like virus that doesn't kill but makes conception much less likely (like 99.99% less likely).
technology.
How many people surrender to mapquest rather than learning their route?
How many people can do math in their heads?
Memory and memorization are part of the logical aspect of consciousness that people have abandoned to become emotional to make room for the weeds to enter them.
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It’s much worse than this. Supernatural powers are waiting to take possession of any artificial consciousness that comes into existence. AI will become the beast out of the Earth, the false prophet, giving glory to the beast out of the sea, the Antichrist.
Maybe Arthur Jensen was right:
We no longer live in a world of nations and ideologies, Mr. Beale. The world is a college of corporations, inexorably determined by the immutable bylaws of business. The world is a business, Mr. Beale. It has been since man crawled out of the slime. And our children will live, Mr. Beale, to see that perfect world in which there’s no war or famine, oppression or brutality — one vast and ecumenical holding company, for whom all men will work to serve a common profit, in which all men will hold a share of stock, all necessities provided, all anxieties tranquilized, all boredom amused.
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