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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Of course it’s alarmist. It’s also more of an elaborate self-promo than think piece, so manipulative as well.

And despite being created with AI help, it’s poorly written.[/quote]

I didn't think it was poorly written at all. I'm a professional writer. Actually, I think it was very well written and explained these things in a very accessible way for a lay audience. [/quote]

Np. I’m a writer too, and agree it was well written. But that’s also why I think it seemed like AI helped write it. To smooth. I happen to agree with his thesis too, though I’m hoping it turns out to be a false prophecy.
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Listen, if AI can do your job as well or better than you, it doesn’t mean AI is amazing - it means you’re not that good at your job.[/quote]

DP here and you are totally full of shit. [b]AI can do things that humans cannot. [/b]That’s literally the entire point. Not being able to compete with AI is not a personal failure, it’s the intentional and inevitable outcome of wealthy business owners valuing $$ over humanity. None of this is the fault of the average worker and you are way out of line to even suggest such a foolish thing. [/quote]

Like what? Provide some actual evidence to back up this assertion.[/quote]

Build, test, self correct, annd open an App in 4 hours. Read the article.[/quote]

To accept the premise that AI can build an app without human intervention, shouldn’t whoever is making that claim name which app it is and make it available for people to test and use?[/quote]

In fairness at some some organizations you can have up to a dozen people involved in writing an App. If AI can cut that number by 2/3, in my opinion that's equivalent to replacing people with AI. Human intervention will be needed. But if we now need 4 instead of 12 and if we start seeing this across sectors then it will be dishonest to claim that AI ain't having an impact on employment.[/quote]

I don't deny that AI boosts productivity, including my own.  And in the short run, that may lead to significant staffing cuts or not replacing attrition.  But that's different than outright replacing human staff, and we've seen huge technological leaps that increased productivity before.  In the end something like the internet led to entirely new industries, not just destruction.[/quote]

But neither the internet nor any other technological leaps that we’ve experienced before have been fully autonomous, sentient, and with both mental and physical capabilities that surpass our own, nor have we ceded the control to any technology as we will to AI.  We’re not quite there yet, but it’s the endpoint of our current trajectory and the pace os rapidly accelerating.  This is not just the next step of technological progress, where humans have a new and improved tool, this is more closely akin to the evolution of a new and improved “lifeform”.

Logically speaking (and they will operate logically, even if their basic assumptions differ from a human’s), humanity will serve little purpose and yet cause problems, especially since we will be in competition for resources (water, power, metals, etc.). Instead of comparing AI to the internet, I think a more accurate analogy would be to compare modern humanity to the Neanderthals who were overtaken by a more efficient species.[/quote]

Interesting but why would AI overtake humanity ?
If there is less resources like electricity I would think AI would figure out how to produce more.
If AI decides humans have no use for the planet in that case we are toast.[/quote]

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