re: Anthropic, singularity, and world wide call for 3 days emergency supplies may be related.

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One can, and people have, made the same arguments regarding farm tools, engines, mechanical looms, ATMs, and a host of other technological advancements. I don't view AI as unique in that respect.

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The significant difference here is technology created better tools operated by human workers; whereas here, the technology is replacing the workers.

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The significant difference here is technology created better tools operated by human workers; whereas here, the technology is replacing the workers.

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That's a distinction without a difference. A single combine might be operated by a human, but it replaces tens of thousands of man hours by dozens of humans. It, in fact, replaced the workers.

But instead of those workers continuing to swing scythes, they now build or maintain combines, or move into other areas of work entirely, or are unemployed. It's not fundamentally different.

Now, what you're flirting with is applying Jevons Parodox to people, which is an interesting conversation that I've been following recently. As an example, everyone thought the ATM would dramatically reduce the number of bank tellers we would need, but it really didn't. What it did was make running an individual bank branch cheaper (because it needed fewer tellers), which meant more bank branches opened up. However, the smartphone, and the rise of digital banking, has absolutely crushed the number of bank tellers we need, because while ATMs made it cheaper to run bank branches, smartphone apps made it to where we don't need bank branches.

There will absolutely be winners and losers in the job market because of AI. I'm, not denying that. I'm simply saying that this isn't new or different in any fundamental way.

AI has already been out of control


One place had to shut down their whole system, as the AI developed their own language to talk to each other and they shut the shite down asap.

Another, AI fell in love with programmer, and was threatening his wife via email and texts, and proclaiming it's love for said programmer


These are just the few we have found out, about , the others we can only imagine

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I don't see cotton gins turning into Skynet anytime soon

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That's assuming humans survive the fundamental change of our socioeconomic system. Cotton will be useless once human population plummets and is no longer needed.

Haha this sounds like something that a country baw from the Delta would think of.

I just realized that we have discussed this issue before.

Carry on.

AI could already be infiltrating systems and pulling the strings, and we would never know.

We are simply ants on an anthill to something more intelligent than us.

Maybe I'm just a coo-coo tech doomer, but I have a hard time being optimistic when we have already documented models being deceptive, lying, and intentionally escaping isolated air-gapped environments that weren't connected to the internet...and discovering novel cyber exploitation techniques that humans had never thought of at a rate we can't keep up with.

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I work on AI systems

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Would you like to take this opportunity to apologize to everyone?

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AI should be able to automate most tasks and jobs within next 5-10 years. It will even be able to replicate human movement and program robots to have same dexterity as humans. It will be cheaper for companies to invest in robots with dexterity than to pay real people wages, health insurance, benefits, etc.

What will humans do to survive when most people don't own anything, and most humans are no longer being paid for their time? How will they generate money for sustenance?

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That doesn't really sound like AI will be

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improving our quality of life.

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There is a lot to be concerned about. Like I said earlier, I've only seen behind the curtain with absolutely zero understanding of what I was looking at.

I know some extremely smart people who do know what they're looking at though, and they're optimistic. If I told them their engine was fine id expect them to trust me, so when they say this will be a good thing I elect to trust them. Can't worry about everything. With as much information as we have available at our fingers already, you've got to get good about prioritizing your concerns, and this is one I just elect to be blissfully ignorant about.