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The amount of work isn't fixed, but the definitions of useful work have changed. AI threatens to make all human-sourced work redundant. Because AI is really an
by TheOtherHobbes 3y ago
The amount of work isn't fixed, but the definitions of useful work have changed.
AI threatens to make all human-sourced work redundant. Because AI is really an automated culture machine - in the widest sense. It will eventually be able to innovate, rather than replicate, culturally ground-breaking work in art, science, engineering, business, politics, and media.
What jobs are humans going to do then? All that's left is manual labour - and eventually that will be automated too.
This isn't exaggeration. It's already happening in a very limited way with today's super-crude AI 1.0. AI 5.0 won't be a step change, it will be something entirely new.
- satvikpendem 3y agoRobotics is much more difficult than software. It will be quite a while until an AI can autonomously build a space elevator. Until then, people will still work. And after that, perhaps we can finally sit back and relax.
- quonn 3y agoIt‘s not more difficult, it‘s simply that it cannot be done using the same approach.
- somewhereoutth 3y agoOf course, if something was actually intelligent just as we are, but didn't need food etc, then the 'means of production' would now be wholly and completely owned by capital, and there would be no place for workers of any sort. But with LLMs we are as close to that as climbing Everest takes us to the Moon. No small feat, but not particularly relevant. After all, all they do is return statistically likely text responses from text inputs, based on a very large corpus of text previously written by humans. Any claim above that is technical hubris and/or funding strategy.
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