Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m tired of these threads. If it truly gets to a point where no one can get a job, there is no money for food, fighting in the streets, whatever, I’d just shoot myself. But there is nothing we can do about this.

This is exactly how I feel.

Anonymous wrote:I’m tired of these threads. If it truly gets to a point where no one can get a job, there is no money for food, fighting in the streets, whatever, I’d just shoot myself. But there is nothing we can do about this.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:dont worry, there will still be jobs in police, military and private security, to keep order through threat of violence. We will still create things like drugs, alcohol, and junk food, as well as 'content' to keep people entertained and docile.

We will need less police offices because we can use machine learning to predict who is more more likely to commit certain crimes. And AI can do the paperwork etc.

Rome eventually collapsed...

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All this AI talk has replaced the Metaverse talk that was prevalent only a few years ago.
All vague promises and the 4th estate needs to stay relevant by trumpeting SOMETHING.

Still waiting for all of the truck drivers to lose their jobs to self-driving trucks. It’s been, what, 10 years?

Cashiers seem pretty stable

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All this AI talk has replaced the Metaverse talk that was prevalent only a few years ago.
All vague promises and the 4th estate needs to stay relevant by trumpeting SOMETHING.

Still waiting for all of the truck drivers to lose their jobs to self-driving trucks. It’s been, what, 10 years?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:dont worry, there will still be jobs in police, military and private security, to keep order through threat of violence. We will still create things like drugs, alcohol, and junk food, as well as 'content' to keep people entertained and docile.

We will need less police offices because we can use machine learning to predict who is more more likely to commit certain crimes. And AI can do the paperwork etc.

Rome eventually collapsed...

Anonymous wrote:Once the AIocalypse happens, who will all these companies sell things to? If no one has jobs, how will they buy cars, vacations, clothes, movies, electronics, homes, shoes, and basically every consumable product possible?

Even non-white collar jobs will get slammed. Who's going to hire all of the electricians, plumbers, carparenters, masons, etc. when no one has money for things like home repairs due to job loss?

Corporate America will get what it wants with AI rollout, but then they'll cry later with a shocked Pikachu face when the entire economy tanks because no one has money anymore to buy anything.

AI will actually devolve the world. Get ready to go back to agrarian societies where no one participates in a money based society. We will all have to grow our own stuff and barter with each other for good and services.

Anonymous wrote:dont worry, there will still be jobs in police, military and private security, to keep order through threat of violence. We will still create things like drugs, alcohol, and junk food, as well as 'content' to keep people entertained and docile.

Anonymous wrote:

I’m skeptical across the board: it is and will be useful but we are a long way from a full white collar job apocalypse.

Anonymous wrote:Here are some things we know -

The tech industry is driven by hyperbole and promises of absurd growth. Wall Street loves eliminating jobs and automation. Companies that are tech focused, or are actively incorporating tech advances, are viewed favorably. Everyone in this situation has a strong incentive to play up continued advances now matter how specious.

We also know that we do not even understand intelligence, a fact that AI researches are frustrated about, having been waiting for quite some time more insight into how to construct an artificial equivalent. The current batch of models impress with their language ability on face value. However, they're already levered up the extreme in terms of data, resource consumption, and fiddling with the underlying model architecture. Unlike previous advances in tech like the web and smartphones, there is no clear path forward to continued advancement. The companies working on the models are burning many billions attempting to lure people in, however, still no killer product. Disappointing usage given the amount of growth that needs to occur to plausibly one day turn a profit.

The models perform text completions. There is 0 intelligence or reasoning ability. They can plausibly automate some tasks with a human in the loop. The industry will throw out terms such as 'reasoning' and 'agents', but it is essentially the same models just 'talking' to each other and not any form of intelligence. The industry will continue to try and ride the hype hoping someone, somewhere, has a breakthrough. The odds are the bubble pops and these companies go bankrupt/divest (as we already see evidence of them doing).

Where's the AGI again? Next year? Again next year? The year after?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m tired of these threads. If it truly gets to a point where no one can get a job, there is no money for food, fighting in the streets, whatever, I’d just shoot myself. But there is nothing we can do about this.

I’m tired of these, too. It’s every day a new doomsday thread about AI…I feel like it’s a bit of something. I posted about this but my post was removed.
What is the bot hoping to achieve?

They do seem like bot posts. I was trying to put my finger on it.