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> at least as significant as — if not more than — agriculture Are there really people out there who believe that? I mean, agriculture was a BIG BIG BIG deal fo
by nicoco 3y ago
> at least as significant as — if not more than — agriculture
Are there really people out there who believe that? I mean, agriculture was a BIG BIG BIG deal for humanity, it is not unreasonable to thing that this will have been out biggest deal.
- toomuchtodo 3y agoYes. Depending on improvement trajectory and implementation velocity, this could replace a material amount of global aggregate knowledge work. EDIT: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-11-18/ai-can-do-your-admin-tasks-britain-tells-its-public-workers https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-11-18/ai-can-do... | https://archive.today/b37TG https://archive.today/b37TG ("Bloomberg: AI Can Do Your Admin Tasks, Britain Tells Its Public Workers") > Governments around the world are increasingly turning to AI to help streamline operations and increase productivity in public services as they face higher costs and aging populations. > In the UK, Hunt said that Al is already helping doctors and nurses treat stroke victims, and build high-quality lesson plans for teachers. > Further use of the technology would cut teachers’ workloads by as many as five hours each week over three years, while new technologies could save the country’s police force around 750,000 hours every week he said.
- DavidSJ 3y agoIt’s of course hard to directly compare, in large part because the AI revolution wouldn’t be possible without the agricultural revolution. But yeah, a lot of people think AI is a BIG BIG BIG BIG (note: I used one more “BIG” than you) deal for humanity.
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- cgoode 3y agocomparing chalk and cheese
- layer8 3y agoWhich one is the cheese?
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- BobbyJo 3y agoDepends on how you measure the bigness of the deal. AI, over the long term, will render humans mostly useless. We'll basically only be tasked with keeping ourselves entertained. Agriculture, if you disconnect it from the industrial revolution, really only allowed us to stay in on place while mostly not starving to death. Although, when the weather went bad, we did still starve to death.
- civilitty 3y agoYes, people that delusional actually exist. I’m bullish on AI but with comments like that I sympathize with people who think it’s just a bunch of rebranded cryptocoin scammers.
- thom 3y agoI’ll say it as pithily as possible: agriculture was the beginning of work, AI will be the end of it. Those are some significant bookends!
- haizhung 3y agoThere will never be an end of work, no matter our technological advancements. At least not while we have capitalism, it just goes straight against its core philosophy. If I understand it correctly.
- Obscurity4340 3y agoDo you think its possible to have universal income/"plenty" and not have insane inflation?
- moralestapia 3y ago@DavidSJ's exaggerating. I'd put AI almost on par w/ the invention of the internet but still WAY off agriculture, come on.
- slotrans 3y agoIt's obviously absurd but yes, people believe it, especially around here.
- tim333 3y agoYeah, I believe it's bigger than agriculture. Agriculture was just food. AI may be immortality if we kind of merge.