Senate The AIificication and future of work

Can we talk about how the future of work seems to be prompt generation + soft skills? What is going to happen to us

 

What does the word "redundant" mean?

 

I’ll ask bing

 

Can an AI buy an NFT?

 

Unless you’re all okay with AI generated art that has humans with 47 fingers, and a valley of the dolls look to their expressions, I think we’re okay for the short term.

Long term…who knows.

 

Butlerian Jihad

 

these two tools are what led me to this train of thought @DarkGingerJedi

 

You can have an AI orchestra but it'll still need a conducter.

 

so only eliminating like 49 out of 50 jobs? sweet!

 

Your standard ******** US chief executive types don't even need AI as a reason to cut jobs. Company has its most successful year ever? The next move is sacking loads of people.

No, what I was getting at is, if you try to use any of these "smart AI" tools, they're not as smart as they're marketed as. Humans will still be needed.

Probably take a few companies that decide to entirely rely on AI going bust for that message to sink in though.

 

What’s this have to do with Aflack? And is it the actor or the talking duck insurance?

 

Personally I look forward to a world where humans are no longer required to work to survive. Two hundred years from now, this requirement will be rightfully viewed as a form of slavery.

 

I don’t think that’s how the system works but yes but we’ll all be dead

 

i too look forward to a world where all of us are dead.

 

They’ll never make an AI they can force to commute for an hour and a half each day and then spend 8 hours doing something that could have been done in 4 at home. What are they gonna do? Invent an AI with feelings just so they can still have the satisfaction of personally immiserating people?

Oh, that’ll be why the robots put us up against the wall, 100%.

 

Alifici- what?

 

it’s an i not an l

 

This, climate change, and the Iranian nuclear bomb seem to be the three phenomenon of my lifetime that have more or less been perpetually "coming" at some indeterminate point in the future but never actually materialize.

 

Idk man in my sphere it’s already here

 

JediVision, right?

 

Let's see - temperatures all over the place, greater volatility in weather, far more fires in California - but sure, nothing to do with climate change.

 

ok guys there’s a climate change thread over there, I want to talk about Bing

 

Yeah. My JediVision account was declared a "sock" and I'm apparently not allowed to use it anymore. My personal life is spiraling out of control and I'm walking the tightrope of sanity, and not really successfully

 

Yeah, I think humanity is going to face one of those "paradigm shifts" that are often referenced but are rarely that..er...paradigm shifting.

Not exactly a novel thought, but I believe we're closing in on one of those things that 1940s and 1950s sci-fi writers and comic book writers loved to speculate about - except their speculation usually involved "human-shaped" robots versus, say, self-driving cars etc. What I mean is, I think we are pretty close to...

(1) Self-Driving cars...and trucks and trains and maybe even planes. So a lot of jobs involved in transporting materials (yes, and passengers) will go away.
(2) Self-functioning machinery of all types - forklifts and construction equipment and mining equipment and logging equipment and fishing vessels and garbage pickup and mail delivery and take-out delivery and lots lots more. Which again will mean a lot less need for human beings in a lot of sectors, meaning, again, less jobs.
(3) Arguably part of numbers 1 and 2 above - fully automated cargo handling and unloading and warehouses.
(4) Drifting somewhat in the direction of "robots" versus, say, a "truck with a brain" (although is there a distinction?), robot firefighters, security guards, nursing/nursing home aides, senior home care assistance.

In other words, human beings are more and more going to be replaced by machinery. So we went from (many) years where humans had to work to sustain themselves (hunter/gatherer, farmer/homesteader, etc) to working to provide goods and services in exchange for what they needed (bartering, money, etc). to....? I have no idea how it will work. I see some assuming that...someone...will simply ...give people food, shelter, medical care, etc... but how would that work? And what would people DO? I know, I know, the theory is we'll all be painting and sculpting and writing novels, etc, but.......

 

You can already probably have AI doing that list, but safely? Don't think so.