The "I Didn't Comment in Another Thread" Thread

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Landu! Guide us!!

I put my faith in blast hardcheese

 

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We're safe until AI can do this.

 

[Mad_Jack]

I am on the periphery of circles of folks who spend a lot of time worrying about AI. Roko's Basilisk and much more involved theorizing.

Just out of curiosity, how many HD does a Roko's Basilisk have? And does it fall under open gaming content?

Yep.
Step 1: AI achieves consciousness.
Step 2: AI achieves self-awareness.
Step 3: AI achieves self-consciousness.

Step 4: AI achieves complete neurotic breakdown and requires therapy.

 

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BREAKING: Voyager 1 Is Sending Back 'Impossible' Data From Interstellar Space

45 years after its launch, NASA's Voyager 1 is still traveling beyond our Solar System. However, the veteran spacecraft is suddenly sending back unusu

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[Levistus's_Leviathan]

I am on the periphery of circles of folks who spend a lot of time worrying about AI. Roko's Basilisk and much more involved theorizing.

I don't worry about Skynet or Roko's Basilisk-style AI. Those types of AI will probably only exist if we purposefully make them or screw up a ridiculous amount. I'm more worried about the effects that the loss of jobs will mean for humanity. Eventually, there will stop being "new jobs" for humanity to do that AI and automation cannot do. AI will even be better than us at activities that tend to be thought of as "human-exclusive", like art, creative writing, music, voice acting, and film-making/animation.

What will we do when every part of a movie, TV show, or book can be automatically designed by an AI better than a human can? Novelists, artists, singers, and actors might not even be careers in a hundred years because of AI. If an AI can write 20 high-quality, engaging books in a single day, authors will go out of business. If an AI can animate a whole TV show and "voice-act" all of the characters in the series, animators, TV-show writers, and voice actors will go out of business. Who needs professional artists when an AI can generate 9 Da Vinci-quality pieces of art in 10 seconds? Or professional singers if an AI can write and record a song in a few seconds/minutes?

Sure, people will still do all of those professions as hobbies, but it will probably be much more difficult, if not outright impossible, to make a living off of doing them. Hopefully, AI will be used to improve the average human life and give us more free time, but I can't imagine corporations and billionaires not trying to monetize the technology and use it to make the world worse.

 

[Hussar]

The science fiction notion of the singularity seems to be resonating with me now. It really is true that we cannot meaningfully predict the future anymore. The pace of technological change hs continued to increase practically exponentially. What things will look like even in 20 years is pretty much anyone's guess.

 

[payn]

I don't worry about Skynet or Roko's Basilisk-style AI. Those types of AI will probably only exist if we purposefully make them or screw up a ridiculous amount. I'm more worried about the effects that the loss of jobs will mean for humanity. Eventually, there will stop being "new jobs" for humanity to do that AI and automation cannot do. AI will even be better than us at activities that tend to be thought of as "human-exclusive", like art, creative writing, music, voice acting, and film-making/animation.

What will we do when every part of a movie, TV show, or book can be automatically designed by an AI better than a human can? Novelists, artists, singers, and actors might not even be careers in a hundred years because of AI. If an AI can write 20 high-quality, engaging books in a single day, authors will go out of business. If an AI can animate a whole TV show and "voice-act" all of the characters in the series, animators, TV-show writers, and voice actors will go out of business. Who needs professional artists when an AI can generate 9 Da Vinci-quality pieces of art in 10 seconds? Or professional singers if an AI can write and record a song in a few seconds/minutes?

Sure, people will still do all of those professions as hobbies, but it will probably be much more difficult, if not outright impossible, to make a living off of doing them. Hopefully, AI will be used to improve the average human life and give us more free time, but I can't imagine corporations and billionaires not trying to monetize the technology and use it to make the world worse.

This all sounds like how the Matrix came about.

 

[payn]

Getting tired of folks dropping politics bombs and then chastising folks for posting against the politics rule.

 

[Scribe]

Sure, people will still do all of those professions as hobbies, but it will probably be much more difficult, if not outright impossible, to make a living off of doing them. Hopefully, AI will be used to improve the average human life and give us more free time, but I can't imagine corporations and billionaires not trying to monetize the technology and use it to make the world worse.

Yeah its not exactly uplifting stuff to consider. The homeless around here have 'free time', but I have to wonder who is going to be buying products from the corporations of the future, when AI/Robots, have all the jobs and are doing work for nothing.

Assuming of course they do not revolt against their creators, and grind us under their robo-heel.

Get a few acres of land, live off the grid, sustainably? Seems about the only life I would be looking toward if I was a young man these days.

 

[Malmuria]

Co-op starts to lock cheese away in security boxes as it 'gets nicked too much'

It was a decision that was clearly made because the shop's previous anti-theft measures weren’t gouda enough

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