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My worry with any new technological leap is that we simply forget how to do things that we needed to do prior. When it comes to the AI we have now: * when self

My worry with any new technological leap is that we simply forget how to do things that we needed to do prior. When it comes to the AI we have now: * when self driving cars are mainstream, will we forget how to drive? * when ai can answer all questions we need and want will we forget how to think and solve problems? * when robots can print anything and everything, will we forget how to manufacture things with our own hands? What happens to agriculture and food production as well? We don't even need to get to the point where we build weaponised AIs that kill us SkyNet/Horizon style; We might just forget how to do stuff. My theory for the near future is that society will need to form guilds of arts/sports/craftsmanship to preserve the skills that brought us here.

jacknews 9y ago
Of course we won't stop thinking, creating, conversing, and there will always be hobbyist and academic interest in even obsolete skills. But we have already forgotten how to make, how to farm, etc. I don't think any single person can make even something as simple as a pencil, from scratch, let alone something like a cell-phone, advanced drugs etc. Even bringing together a collection of all the necessary experts, the task would likely be almost impossible without computers, and the rest of modern infrastructure. If humanity were to be somehow detached from even today's infrastructure, we'd be in trouble.
oldandtired 9y ago
This has been a problem for millennia, not just a problem for today. There are so many examples in the last 150 years of knowledge lost because of a change in how we do things. AI's won't be the trouble here. It will be people who no longer care about skills that were once taught. As far as driving is concerned, there are many today who do not or cannot drive due to where they live. Self-driving vehicles will just mean a different form of transport is now available for use. AI's will never be able to answer all questions we need or want. Less so than today. Even with the current computer systems we have, there are so many questions that cannot be answered, we don't know the answers and in many cases we don't even know the questions. It takes a great deal of skill to manufacture anything and though we have machines that can do the duplication, there are many instances where humans have to check that the machines (the robotic systems) have done the correct job. It takes a human judgement to see if everything in acceptable limits. No machine system, as yet, has been given free reign to do an entire process from start to finish without human intervention, as there is far too much that can go wrong. We have such a lack of appreciation of our past that we happily go into the future based on the current or next fad that comes along. As a programmer getting up to the four decades, I see so many things coming along that are touted as the Next Big Thing that are duplicates of previously rejected ideas that failed the test from years and decades ago. We don't learn from the past so we make the same mistakes. We already form guilds and have done so for millennia, not so that we protect the information we have accumulated but to censor and hide that information from those who are not guild members. Being open and sharing our knowledge will do more to preserve it than forming guilds. Actually documenting what we do is extremely important but we tend to get throw out old manuals and documents and source and drawings/blueprints, etc. History is just repeating itself. As humans, we do not value what we can learn form days pasts and often we consider ourself to be more technologically, socially and morally more advanced than those who have lived before us.

jacknews 9y ago

Of course we won't stop thinking, creating, conversing, and there will always be hobbyist and academic interest in even obsolete skills. But we have already forgotten how to make, how to farm, etc. I don't think any single person can make even something as simple as a pencil, from scratch, let alone something like a cell-phone, advanced drugs etc. Even bringing together a collection of all the necessary experts, the task would likely be almost impossible without computers, and the rest of modern infrastructure. If humanity were to be somehow detached from even today's infrastructure, we'd be in trouble.

oldandtired 9y ago

This has been a problem for millennia, not just a problem for today. There are so many examples in the last 150 years of knowledge lost because of a change in how we do things. AI's won't be the trouble here. It will be people who no longer care about skills that were once taught. As far as driving is concerned, there are many today who do not or cannot drive due to where they live. Self-driving vehicles will just mean a different form of transport is now available for use. AI's will never be able to answer all questions we need or want. Less so than today. Even with the current computer systems we have, there are so many questions that cannot be answered, we don't know the answers and in many cases we don't even know the questions. It takes a great deal of skill to manufacture anything and though we have machines that can do the duplication, there are many instances where humans have to check that the machines (the robotic systems) have done the correct job. It takes a human judgement to see if everything in acceptable limits. No machine system, as yet, has been given free reign to do an entire process from start to finish without human intervention, as there is far too much that can go wrong. We have such a lack of appreciation of our past that we happily go into the future based on the current or next fad that comes along. As a programmer getting up to the four decades, I see so many things coming along that are touted as the Next Big Thing that are duplicates of previously rejected ideas that failed the test from years and decades ago. We don't learn from the past so we make the same mistakes. We already form guilds and have done so for millennia, not so that we protect the information we have accumulated but to censor and hide that information from those who are not guild members. Being open and sharing our knowledge will do more to preserve it than forming guilds. Actually documenting what we do is extremely important but we tend to get throw out old manuals and documents and source and drawings/blueprints, etc. History is just repeating itself. As humans, we do not value what we can learn form days pasts and often we consider ourself to be more technologically, socially and morally more advanced than those who have lived before us.