re: Woz: The Future of AI Is 'Scary and Very Bad for People'

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eventually they'll think faster than us and they'll get rid of the slow humans to run companies more efficiently."

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How is this a bad thing?

All of this has happened before, and will happen again.

It would be natural selection. As a business owner I see more degreed idiots who I must hire more people to babysit everyday. I'd hope I'm one of the ones the AI keeps around and sigh in relief

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My question in all of this is how can society sustain itself when AI takes over white collar and blue collar jobs when unemployment skyrockets to 20 - 30% and beyond? High taxes on businesses to support the skilled workers through welfare who are being pushed out of jobs for a machine?

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There simply won't be that much work that needs to be done. With machines doing all of our work, we should have the unemployment rate as high as 95%, maybe higher. Having a job will be an oddity unless you're an artist of some type. In theory we could all pursue our own passions without having to worry about providing for ourselves. It actually sounds pretty nice.

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It's not as great as it sounds unless there is income redistribution.


There's plenty of solutions, and most of them aren't as terrifying as Communism. But that's not my point. We do need to make some big decisions in the near future, but the fact that things will change and we will need to adapt is not reason enough to try and stifle progress.

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LucasP

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Quoted, saved, upvoted


I think Lucas got cereal on "DAT" arse


eta2: Even upvoted myeslf for the posterity work

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Lots of people in here who really just aren't aware of the capabilities, but talking out their asses like experts anyway.

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Don't do that. This is an interesting and important discussion, we don't need it to devolve into a dick-measuring contest about who's listened to the most TED talks on the subject or read the most Kurzweil books (by the way, I have).

Of course we're not aware of the possibilities, by the very nature of the discussion we can't be. When people first used fire, I'd be willing to bet that a lot of their peers were afraid of it and didn't use it. Those that were afraid of it died off and those that used it fricked and made more people who used fire. The same thing will happen here, some people will be frightened and not willing to adapt (Luddites) and the rest of us will become something new.

This is essentially the plot of CBS' Person of Interest.

Terminator coming to life