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When swarms of bots are more valuable than human visitors, and control capital, then the "attention economy" will look very different. Unlimited swarms of Bots
by EGreg 4y ago
When swarms of bots are more valuable than human visitors, and control capital, then the "attention economy" will look very different.
Unlimited swarms of Bots can already make "helpful and constructive comments" that are upvoted by other people, thanks to GPT-3. 99% of comment interactions are passive, not an interactive Turing test. And the bots can be trained to never cuss or pick fights with people. Mission was fucking accomplished: https://xkcd.com/810/ https://xkcd.com/810/
You won't see it coming, but the bot accounts will start to outnumber people online until 10 years from now humans represent a vanishingly small amount of content and "social capital". Just like on wall street, the bots have replaced human traders. It happens gradually.
And eventually, they'll control the money online, too, for various tasks. You'll be working for a DAO maybe, but it'll be some menial job -- the way rich people hired peasants throughout history to do menial works. Until those are replaced, too, in a race to the bottom.
That is what humanity is constructing for itself. Because AI innovation cannot be stopped.
- gammabetadelta 4y agowelcome to the new dystopia, it just like the old dystopia but with bots
- OkayPhysicist 4y agoAI innovation cannot be stopped. But the assumption that we just have to hand over all the world's wealth to whoever controls the AI is far from a given. In a world where human labor accounts for a vanishingly small portion of what it takes to support an individual, why should we structure the economy around pretending that 100% employment is still necessary, or even desirable? Capitalism gets uglier and uglier the more the supply of human labor outmatches the demand. In a world run by machines, it would be very hard to argue that Capitalism's value out weighs its cost.
- svachalek 4y agoHave to, no. But who would stop it? Corporations are basically the beta prototype for AI overlords, and there's practically no complaint.
- mistermann 4y agoIn a very real sense, human beings themselves are bot-like, from a scientific perspective anyways.