I expect a long period of time where senior- and mid-level developers and computer analysts will still be in high demand.
Having said that, millions of jobs are about checklists, which is what AI excels at. It doesn’t need any real intelligence to keep checking off a or b all day long and replace millions of workers in the process.
AI doesn’t think, but it is a very useful tool.
If the “aliens” annoying Earth with their inconsiderate light shows really are robot intelligences, maybe they can take over AI for us and usher in a new age for mankind.
Which explains the strange stuff it comes up with.
Omygosh! I hoped they'd set their sights higher than that.
Give it time. Change may come quicker than expected.
Keep in mind early attempts to build cars, airplanes and non sail powered ships wasn’t very impressive by modern standards.
Pretty much the same for all technology. Breakthroughs often occur in strange ways and at odd times.
I know of some people with “artificial general intelligence”. All are liberals.
AI as a tool will be operationally important, but the question also arises in speculative fiction, especially sci fi.
I instinctively start with the fact that a robot or android, even with very sophisticated programming, would have/could have no real understanding of pain.
Or humor. Or any other organic, emotional or spiritual reaction.
The AI could have a set of programed responses to mimic human behavior, but there is no real mind-body-soul connection. As we have discussed before.
We do not really understand this about ourselves ... and then there’s are the sociopaths.
I don’t think there is much to AI, at least for now.
If anyone knows how to do it, have AI write a new, good country music song and post it on this thread.
I am talking about a sure enough good country music song, not more of the stuff Nashville has been churning out for the past decade.
garbage in = garbage out.
AI is BS
AI will accelerate the end of humanity.
“Hallucinations of objects or functions...”
Hey that sounds just like a Covid jab adverse reaction.
… or it could prompt some uncomfortable questions about UI, unartificial intelligence.
In the 80s, as I understand it, they used AI to look at satellite photoes from Europe to predict where Russian armor would be hiding in the forests. When Desert Storm rolled around, they tried to use it to see where Iraqi armor was hiding in the desert. It failed miserably.
AI was counting the leaves in the European satellite photos and deducing where armor was hidden based on the number of leaves. That doesn’t work in the desert.
AI has a lot of potential, but those that believe it can already “think” are mistaken, IMHO. AI is an encyclopedia thatt can open and read itself. It cannot dream new adventures.
I don’t think that advanced computer circuitry, just because it is advanced, can create a sentient, self-aware, alive being. It is absurd. It has to be programed and will never advance beyond its programing.
An when computers supposedly start designing computers, there is no way in the world it can achieve perfection and the imperfections will be exponentially extended into oblivion.
AI only knows what you tell it. Feed it data, wrap it in large language models with rules for data interpretation (which of course can be subject to bias) and what's the result? GIGO. Garbage In, Garbage Out.
Does AI have its place? Yes. Do we have to recognize that it too, can have a BIAS just like a human being? Of course it can because it's CREATED BY HUMANS, the algorithms can be biased, the data can be biased, and the results can be biased.
At sixty-two (coming up on sixty-three) years old, I'm fairly confident when I say AI will NEVER replace human brain capability. Certainly not when it comes to critical thinking and making decisions on an unknown/unforseen number of variables that weren't plugged into an algorithm.
We can "think on the fly" taking in new variables, data, etc.. and make a decision w/o the need for an algorithm to tell us how to do it.
Try that, AI.
None of this is news. I intuitively figured this back in the 90s when reading Kurzweil’s “The Age of Spiritual Machines”. What a load of hype, hogwash and intelligent people saying dumbass things.
The notion that there is “intelligence” in a machine, a nonliving, helpless, immobile hunk of electrified plastic and metal is so stupid that it would be laughable if it weren’t so degrading.
Computers COMPUTE, they do not think and they have no intelligence. Duh.
That’s because it’s not real, true AI; it’s VI. Big difference.