I want a human at the controls, just in case.
The only I’m certain about artificial intelligence is, in the end, whomever owns the AI, will not be giving away the benefits for free. Even if everybody is out of work because of AI.
My sense is that, if you can’t keep up, you will be provided for but you might have to exchange being sterilized for those benefits to ensure that you don’t children who are not capable of keeping up. Only the most intelligent will be permitted to have children.
In at least two of those cases they had a point.
In January 2009 Captain “Sully” Sullenberger saved the lives of 150 passengers by making an emergency landing on the Hudson River.
No, they don't have a point with this case, for two reasons.
First, computers could easily be trained to do this. Sully taught pilots in simulators for years after the incident. Computer systems can learn from that data.
Secondly, Sully could land the plane because he had very precise extra skills as a glider pilot, which commercial pilots aren't trained for. In other words, out of all the pilots in the world, he was one of a handful, or even the only one, who could land that plane safely. Every other pilot would have ended up killing someone. If a computer is trained in this landing, then any aircraft that is running with that software can survive.
And this doesn't even go into the fact that most aircraft fatalities are due to pilot error. If machines can eliminate those, there will be far fewer fatalities, even counting the extreme cases that the software can't handle.
Robots have been around for 40 years. And I still see shortage of skilled people and corporations can’t find enough qualified workers. My nephew just graduated with an engineering degree and has MULTIPLE job offers to choose from. I guess the robots are not smart enough to replace him.
Called robot day.
"Infinite leisure", what is meant by that? I believe that the author foresees a world where robotics and computer automation replaces every need for human labor. If so, we would inherit the blessing of infinite leisure. Maybe. But consider for what purpose beyond our basic needs would that automation be used? This would depend on human imagination which cannot not be replicated by any algorithm. John Quincy Adams once wrote "I am a warrior so that my son can be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet". Once we are secure, and all our our material needs have been fulfilled and more, we will still need to inspire and entertain ourselves, lest we die of boredom.
Then we can have Robot Day instead.
Labor Day sounds a little too progressive, in my opinion.
Then there’ll be jobs for people to design, build and maintain ...robots.
Win/Win
In the year 2525.......
An argument as old as the Luddites. New technologies have always resulted in more and varied jobs, not less. I don’t know what they will be, but they WILL be.
just isn’t going to happen this way.
When humans are fully replaced by robots, maybe our robot lords will let us have that day off from maintenance on robots.
On Labor Day, I'd hope they'd have been trained to grill awesome brats and ribs!
-PJ
Just like some of the ‘safety” features in cars....a car can’t detect loose gravel, spots of ice and other road inconsistencies that can be seen by a driver...it’s possible for a car safety system to throw one off a cliff when the driver could have prevented it.