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Let's Talk About Humanity's Future With AI and Robots

Posted on 10/22/17 at 12:02 pm
Posted by AUstar
Member since Dec 2012
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Posted on 10/22/17 at 12:02 pm
(See my TL;DR if you just want to cut to the chase)

In the future one thing is almost certain: AI and robots are going to do probably 90% (or more) of the jobs humans currently do and do them better. Low level jobs like flipping burgers and being a cashier are already being done by robots. Even skilled jobs in the manufacturing sector have been done by robots for decades now. Back in the day all cars were made by hand, now almost no car is made by hand.

However, it's not going to end with low skilled jobs. In the future, robots will be smart enough to be doctors and will probably provide more accurate diagnosis and treatment than human doctors. A human cannot compete with a super brain that can instantly scan all known medical literature on a topic. Same for paralegals: Lawyers will no longer need paralegals because his AI robot will be able to dig into any obscure legal code within seconds and provide an answer. Eventually lawyers themselves will be replaced. It will be the same with engineering. A robot brain is going to design a better bridge than an LSU grad (sorry baws). Oh, and let's not forget the military: We won't need fighter pilots or drone pilots anymore - the planes and the drones will fly themselves. We won't need infantry soldiers, we will have machines marching on the battlefield like in Terminator. We will probably keep human generals around just to keep an eye on things, but the number of jobs in the military will be reduced dramatically. Eventually the robots will make the decision when to go to war and when and where to attack the enemy.

I think you get the point. There will be almost NO industry or job not taken over by machines. So my question is, what do we as humans do all day? I am not a socialist, but I see no way around a universal income. When there are literally no jobs to do, no matter how much we want to do them, what else can we do? We are going to have to pass laws so that the corporate giants like Google pass along their profit to the general population. We are all going to become welfare bums!

So this leads me to a question:

TL;DR - Robots and AI are going to replace humans in almost every job. Should humanity just throw in the towel, go extinct, and pass the torch to our robot overlords? I foresee humans failing to reproduce as life becomes more and more sedentary and comfortable. I think we naturally go extinct in time.
Posted by HogX
Madison, WI
Member since Dec 2012
5667 posts
Posted on 10/22/17 at 12:06 pm to
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So my question is, what do we as humans do all day?


There won't be much to do once AI wipes all of us out.
Posted by themasterpater
I travel
Member since Sep 2014
1358 posts
Posted on 10/22/17 at 12:07 pm to
Can I get a female robot that lets me PIIHB?
Posted by CoachChappy
Member since May 2013
34335 posts
Posted on 10/22/17 at 12:08 pm to
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Can I get a female robot that lets me PIIHB?



Yes, yes you can
Posted by AUstar
Member since Dec 2012
19808 posts
Posted on 10/22/17 at 12:09 pm to
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Can I get a female robot that lets me PIIHB?


Yes. You can already, bro.
Posted by OysterPoBoy
City of St. George
Member since Jul 2013
45565 posts
Posted on 10/22/17 at 12:09 pm to
Once robots start having sex I’m sure humans will be a big fetish. We can always jack them off and stuff to stay relevant.
Posted by Collegedropout
Where Northern Mexico meets Dixie
Member since May 2017
5202 posts
Posted on 10/22/17 at 12:13 pm to
We're going to need to destroy technology and start all over.
Posted by cattus
Member since Jan 2009
16084 posts
Posted on 10/22/17 at 12:20 pm to
I'm cool with that as long as I don't have to go back to IPhone.
Posted by NotoriousFSU
Atlanta, GA
Member since Oct 2008
12647 posts
Posted on 10/22/17 at 1:01 pm to
Sam Harris discusses AI on his podcast on multiple occasions which I'd highly recommend you check out based on your concerns.
With UBI, some would argue it'd give more people the freedom to live a more meaningful life consumed by their passions as opposed to working some mundane 9-5 desk job for 40 years of their life. I don't believe we're fulfilling human potential as "cubicle slaves", but I also don't believe a majority "welfare state" would fulfill that potential either.
To answer your question, once AI becomes a part of every day life, humans should seek to form hybrids (cyborg) to progress for the sake of humanity, but ultimately AI will create its own perfect image of life, and by then traditional humans probably won't have any functional role other than existence.
Posted by udtiger
Over your left shoulder
Member since Nov 2006
117287 posts
Posted on 10/22/17 at 1:13 pm to
There isn't one.

See Terminator
Posted by TigerinATL
Member since Feb 2005
62446 posts
Posted on 10/22/17 at 1:32 pm to
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There will be almost NO industry or job not taken over by machines. So my question is, what do we as humans do all day?


I think short term this is going to be very disruptive and it might take a generation or more to figure out how to work with the new tech. I think we will figure it out though. Our very limitations that make us “inferior” to our new robot overlords will be what ends up making us unique and useful to them. We will work with and perhaps merge with them. But until then we probably will need to change to some form of socialism as most humans become practically worthless to the economy.
Posted by Breesus
Unplug
Member since Jan 2010
69549 posts
Posted on 10/22/17 at 1:37 pm to
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 So my question is, what do we as humans do all day? 


Smoke weed. Play video games. Netflix and Chill. Create entertainment. Enjoy the outdoors. Hike. Hunt. Fish. Relax. Raise families
Posted by GeorgePaton
God's Country
Member since May 2017
5985 posts
Posted on 10/22/17 at 1:54 pm to
AI and Robots represents the single greatest threat to mankind. Having said that, advancements in the technology will not stop....they never do. Skrew the ethics, full speed ahead for the good of mankind will (is) be the mantra. I'm convinced we'll see something like a hybrid being much like we saw in the movie Blade Runner within the next forty years (maybe sooner). Just like the invention of the Atomic Bomb, the invention of AI merged with some kind of hybrid human-robot will lead to the death of millions and millions of earthlings. Surely, there will be peaceful uses for the new lifeform, but given man's tendency to exploit technology to control, AI will turn on its creator. In that Blade Runner I was prophetic.
This post was edited on 10/22/17 at 2:05 pm
Posted by OweO
Plaquemine, La
Member since Sep 2009
122534 posts
Posted on 10/22/17 at 2:53 pm to
It is hard to say. Awhile back 60 mins had a segment on AI and they showed a computer that was developed that's a hospital associated with the University of North Carolina.

This woman had a rare form of cancer and the doctor wasn't aware of the most recent information on this cancer and the computer was able to find an article that was recently published about treating that cancer and the woman was able to get the treatment specific to that cancer, which was something that if the doctor alone would have diagnosed, he would have informed her that there was treating it.

It was pretty much like a super google, but it teaches itself.

There is the capability to do a lot more than we realize, but I think the question everyone has going forward is.. How do we implement this?

Just think back to the 20th century. We advanced more quickly within that 100 years of time than we did in hundreds of years. I think back to only 20 years ago and see how quickly technology has changed society so I can't imagine where we will be 20 years from now.
Posted by fr33manator
Baton Rouge
Member since Oct 2010
135044 posts
Posted on 10/22/17 at 3:05 pm to
This post was edited on 10/22/17 at 3:07 pm
Posted by EA6B
TX
Member since Dec 2012
14754 posts
Posted on 10/22/17 at 3:07 pm to
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Just think back to the 20th century. We advanced more quickly within that 100 years of time than we did in hundreds of years. I think back to only 20 years ago and see how quickly technology has changed society so I can't imagine where we will be 20 years from now.


One thing is certain, we have never been able to predict what the future will be like with any degree of accuracy. Two of my favorites,

“We will never make a 32 bit operating system.” — Bill Gates

“Home Taping Is Killing Music” — A 1980s campaign by the BPI, claiming that people recording music off the radio onto cassette would destroy the music industry.
Posted by fr33manator
Baton Rouge
Member since Oct 2010
135044 posts
Posted on 10/22/17 at 3:10 pm to
Y’all realize that if we let a robot be in charge and ask them to fix things...they’ll be sending robot death squads to most of the unproductive leeches in society, right?
Posted by MrSpock
Member since Sep 2015
5166 posts
Posted on 10/22/17 at 3:31 pm to
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This woman had a rare form of cancer and the doctor wasn't aware of the most recent information on this cancer and the computer was able to find an article that was recently published about treating that cancer and the woman was able to get the treatment specific to that cancer, which was something that if the doctor alone would have diagnosed, he would have informed her that there was treating it.



MD Anderson stopped using Watson for this exact purpose because it was giving the wrong clinical trials to place patients.
Posted by TigerFanInSouthland
Louisiana
Member since Aug 2012
28065 posts
Posted on 10/22/17 at 3:31 pm to
frick Artificial Intelligence.

I will never understand why in the frick humans would want to willingly knock ourselves off the top dog position. Artificial intelligence is not going to be a good thing in the end for society.
Posted by HubbaBubba
North of DFW, TX
Member since Oct 2010
52652 posts
Posted on 10/22/17 at 3:32 pm to
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Can I get a female robot that lets me PIIHB?
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Yes. You can already, bro.
But does she push back?
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