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You could say exactly the same thing about all forms of automation. We build machines to do work, often that work was already being by people which is part of h
by __alexs 3y ago
You could say exactly the same thing about all forms of automation. We build machines to do work, often that work was already being by people which is part of how we came to know it was high value enough to be worth automating.
People will adapt and find new things to do just like they did in the first, second and third industrial revolutions already.
- kypro 3y agoThe industrial revolution didn't really make any work obsolete though. It just augmented human labourers so that they were more productive freeing up people up to pursue other types of work. Humans still need to do agricultural labour, the only difference is that machines mean less humans need to do that as a percentage of the population. AI doesn't improve human labour productivity, but makes it obsolete in a similar way to how the combustion engine made the horse obsolete. What exactly are you going to do of economic value when an AI can do everything the human mind can do?
- camgunz 3y agoI'm a software engineer; I'm aligned with automation in my bones and my very soul. I want workers to reap the benefits of it though, and that's plainly not the pitch of these companies. Every response in this thread is "progress gonna progress", which takes exactly zero responsibility for their own actions in bringing about that progress, or accepting any agency at all about how that progress takes shape. EDIT: > first, second and third industrial revolutions These killed and maimed millions of people