Fox Biz in a tizzy over AI

It's going to be a massive problem. Things are going to get worse.

I hate UBI and all it's implications.

But it's going to be the best solution we have.

The problem is we are going to have to tax away a lot of the productivity gains from corporations to pay for it.

Or just accelerate the bankrupting of the nation.

We're going to choose the latter.

Greed has driven this country downward. AI will be a kind of poetic justice to some, but a horror show for most.

But we still have to import hordes of unskilled folks from the Third World to do the jobs that American AI won't, right?

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So we are allowing million of low skilled labors in the country while at the same time eliminating jobs.
What can go wrong in the short and long term, tax payers get ready to pony up more for entitlements.

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Recipe for massive amounts of crime, violence, and chaos. Almost like it's been planned that way.

As far as AI in agriculture, I'm working with robotics companies and drone companies. Drone can use sensors that can spot disease or signs of infestation, communicate with robotics, and then the robots go into a field and have the coordinates for issues from the drone's data. The robots can then use their own sensors to spot the issue, and either pluck out the diseased plant, or accurately treat the disease, either by use of a selective pesticide or plant killer accurately place to avoid contamination of other plants.

This doesn't mean manpower isn't needed, but it means healthier and larger crop yields.

Yea, AI might be the single largest productivity booster human kind ever develops but let's table it because then what are people gonna do for work?

I totally agree.

While we are at it, let's ban lawn mowers because then we could employ many more people in landscaping when sickles are the most productive method of cutting grass again. Let's ban nail guns so that roofing crews can employ double the people. Hell imagine the good that would come from banning automated machinery, it's not like all that shite wasn't done by hand before, and think of all the jobs!

This is such a dumb backwards-arse line of thought. "AI will be so damn effective, let's squash it because then what will people do." Humans would still be working with sticks and rocks if we always thought this way.

"Preach brother!" - Buggy Whip Manufacturers, 1908

I have been involved in web and ai ( neural networks)… back when it was webcrawler.. mosaic.. and pretty much just linking universities and corporate research.. we were using neural net to mimick what geoscience interpreters were doing mentally and building artificial seismic and geologic interpretation models…this was back in the 90s.. never got it to work.. so when I heard people afraid of ai I thought ..goofballs….

Watched a breakdown of the father of AI explain his concerns..as humans we learn from questioning things and getting feedback from other humans.. we have to find them.. talk to them… and process the information..

With the web ALL computers are or can be linked and benefit from finding knowledge everywhere..from remote village in a jungle to major city.. so immediate knowledge available… you do not have to have a conversation and process the human language so immediate transfers of facts ( or data)… you have immediate processing if this into the model built for the AI to then cause some robotic thing to do something physical… and ability to rebuild the AI model from this to “learn”…

Better put do not kill humans in the models built…. but the North Korea will build one with out it..

We are on the verge of a new world imo.. like the Bronze Age etc.. this is a next step for humanity …..

I am 65 and have seen a lot technology and very pro tech.. this is going to be big.. fast and exponential..

Btw.. I do own so ai stock and picked it up a few years back.. so not against it.. just realistically see pros and cons like all new technologies.

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We can ignore that reality up until the point of the revolution or plan for it.

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I do agree with this for real. We should absolutely be planning for it. The problem is we have clowns in office who are more worried about your kid's inner gender selection than running a functional country..

The answer is not to slow down innovation. That's a double down on bad planning, and would be a gift to all of our international competitors.


ETA: I mean for example, I started using chatgpt and some plugins at my business a couple of months ago. I full realize and appreciate that this technology will eliminate 30-50% of entry level white collar job necessity. I use excel alot, I have spdshts ontop of spdshts on top of spdshts, and I feel I'm extremely above average proficient in excel, bard can do an hour of excel work for me in 5 seconds. It's not that I dont know how to do it, it's just that Bard can do it in 95% less time; and Bard can output a formula to just copy and paste directly into excel. For the first time in my life, I thought, shite UBI might have to become a thing if productivity is going to launch off like this. I hate the idea of UBI, but I think we should be thinking about solutions to this AMAZING problem to have, rather than eliminating the innovation, fk that.