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This feels like the AI’s iPhone moment. I am scared for all people working service jobs.
by jonplackett 4y ago
This feels like the AI’s iPhone moment.
I am scared for all people working service jobs.
- 13years 4y ago> I am scared for all people Probably could stop there.
- jonplackett 4y agoYeah that is actually true. Yeah that’s probably truest. But I’m more scared for some than others short term. I’m less immediately scared for anyone doing work that interacts with the physical world. Weird how it turned out the robotics was harder than the thinking
- 13years 4y agoYes, short term agreed. AI has flipped on its head much of what we thought early AI would be like with creativity being one of its most successful targets. I suspect the surprises will only continue to be, lets say, more surprising. I've actually written a lot about that recently as well. FYI https://dakara.substack.com/p/ai-and-the-end-to-all-things https://dakara.substack.com/p/ai-and-the-end-to-all-things
- jonplackett 4y agoWill check this out!
- passion__desire 4y agoAll jobs will shift to asteroid mining.
- jeron 4y agowhat's stopping AI from asteroid mining for itself
- danjac 4y agoAI is the perfect job for asteroid mining, or any other job outside of Earth orbit, whether for research or commerce. Space is incredibly hostile to humans and, short of some miracle technology, is likely to always remain so: at best we'll have a few plant-the-flag missions in the inner solar system.
- dekhn 4y agoI really wish we'd build a standarized space exploration platform and saturate the solar system with mostly-autonomous robots that occasionally phone home with "wtf is this?" imagine all the surface area in the solar system. I bet there's got to be at least 100 completely unexpected things lying around that would transform our understanding.
- vineyardmike 4y agoI’m still waiting on that pizza I asked ChatGPT to make in November. The code it wrote? Already in production though. I’m not scared for service workers due to ai but you should see how low minimum wage is in America relative to rents if you want to be scared.
- sebzim4500 4y agoMaybe if you had asked for fries instead https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4-qsklXphs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4-qsklXphs
- CamperBob2 4y agoI am scared for all people working service jobs. Why? Because they're no longer doomed to eke out a meaningless existence doing a robot's job badly?
- jonplackett 4y agoIt’s better than having no job isn’t it?
- CamperBob2 4y agoNo. The only way to a post-scarcity economy is by continuing to harness technology whenever and wherever possible. There has been, and will be, no point in time at which the optimal strategy is "Stop" or "Wait" or "What about my job?"
- dragonwriter 4y ago> The only way to a post-scarcity economy There is no way to a post-scarcity economy, the phrase is a contradiction, and scarcity is an inescapable consequence of human desire.
- visarga 4y agoThere's no scarcity of information and media.
- dragonwriter 4y ago> There's no scarcity of information and media. There is scarcity of information and media of the kind people find valuable. If there is a sense in which the broader statement is true, it is irrelevant for that reason.
- jonplackett 4y agoThere’s no scarcity of bullshit articles. There’s a massive scarcity of quality information and media. But that’s unavoidable really because it’s based on perception - There will always be a top 10% of something and a bottom 90%.
- Havoc 4y agoMore worried for the programmers. As we saw with copilot junior levels are definitely directly in the firing line here