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And every person that tells you that there won't be any jobs after AI passes a threshold has already considered your railroad question, and decided that for var
by ewjordan 10y ago
And every person that tells you that there won't be any jobs after AI passes a threshold has already considered your railroad question, and decided that for various reasons the AI shift is different.
There's a big difference between crossing a threshold where machines do one or two specific things better than we do and crossing one where they do everything better. There's certainly an argument about whether or not that's likely or imminent, but it's impossible to deny that strong, singularity-style AI, if discovered, would be a lot more of a disruption to our usefulness than railroads were.
- wwarner 10y agoAnd genomics?
- ianai 10y agoThey probably won't do tasks that people want a human to do better. i.e. I think there will always be human card dealers because, despite being able to gamble against a machine just as well, some people prefer to gamble against a human. There are many customer-centric jobs such as that. I've got no idea how that will work out.
- wwarner 10y agoI'm simply pointing out that there are lots of applications of AI that will create work. And to those that say that machines will just solve all those problems by themselves, I would ask them to produce some evidence besides an estimated trajectory.