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“If you believe that AI will literally automate all jobs, literally, then it makes sense for a company that builds such technology to … not be an absolute profi
by betaby 3y ago
“If you believe that AI will literally automate all jobs, literally, then it makes sense for a company that builds such technology to … not be an absolute profit maximizer.
It's relevant precisely because these things will happen at some point.”
Can someone explain how that's possible? AI will plant/harvest crops ant be a butcher? I don't follow.
- falcor84 3y agoSee this proof of concept integration of an LLM into the Spot robot - https://youtu.be/djzOBZUFzTw https://youtu.be/djzOBZUFzTw I don't see anything limiting this tech from being integrated into other kinds of robots.
- hfjjbf 3y ago[dead]
- d0odk 3y agoIf you think this AI thing is neat, just wait until you hear about robots!
- fatherzine 3y agorobots that zero-shot learn how to plant/harvest crops just by watching a video of you doing it.
- ethanbond 3y agoDo you also use this argument to discount the value of AI investments/R&D near to those of mere manufacturers of robots?
- mitthrowaway2 3y agoAs long as humans represent the lowest cost actuators, perhaps we'll have an economic role suited to manual labour. But that's not necessarily a situation that lasts a very long time.
- jononor 3y agoNor one that will enable particularly humane jobs. Manual labor tend to be poor in terms of health, and competing only on cost will be a race to the bottom.
- skywhopper 3y agoAI doesn’t need meat or grain.
- betaby 3y agoUranium and oil then?
- anigbrowl 3y agoA job could be performed by a human, but still be automated in the sense of virtually all decision-making being made elsewhere, turning pretty much every form of labor into assembly-line work, with human supervisors only present to wear a badge of authority, affirm the computer's decisions, and formally transact hiring and firing. That said, automation of mundane tasks by robots looks increasingly plausible: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qob2k_ldLuw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qob2k_ldLuw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qob2k_ldLuw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qob2k_ldLuw
- wmf 3y agoautomated in the sense of virtually all decision-making being made elsewhere, turning pretty much every form of labor into assembly-line work, with human supervisors only present to wear a badge of authority, affirm the computer's decisions, and formally transact hiring and firing. This almost exactly describes Amazon warehouses.
- reducesuffering 3y agoEven the rough path after the singularity isn’t fathomable to our lower intelligence. Once you have something that can self improve itself smarter and smarter on the order of seconds, there’s no way of telling how it achieves what it wants to achieves. It’s the power imbalance that exists in a universe where an ant is trying to run to safety when there’s an F-16 overhead. Humans are so used to being top of the food chain, there is scant understanding in our culture of what it means to be in the middle of it, like most organisms.
- timeon 3y agohttps://waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/artificial-intelligence-revolution-2.html https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/artificial-intelligence-revol...