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Except we have human-like machines now. I run a llm on my laptop which can write poetry, talk about the history of the Vikings, play games, tell jokes, hold con
by jonnycomputer 3y ago
Except we have human-like machines now. I run a llm on my laptop which can write poetry, talk about the history of the Vikings, play games, tell jokes, hold conversations, bullshit when it doesn't know something, and make mistakes. All very human-like. Does some human-like things better than humans. Other human-like things not as well.
Goal-post moving? Sure. But I think it just betrays a deep discomfort with what has been achieved. Kind of like the meme that it's all just a giant plagiarism machine.
- Aardwolf 3y agoMore human like than in 1958 for sure, but back then they'd have said that e.g. playing chess is human like. And there's still a lot of opportunities to get more human like today: it can't empty the dishwasher or drive a car yet even if you'd give it arms, legs and eyes.
- bheadmaster 3y ago> it can't empty the dishwasher This video [0] at 1:25 suggests that it can. At least in some near future. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sq1QZB5baNw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sq1QZB5baNw
- keithalewis 3y agoI find your ideas intriguing and would like to purchase some tulip bulbs.
- FrustratedMonky 3y agoHoly Shit, is that video real? This isn't faked, or we are going to find out it was ultra staged? That robot seems like a leap. Of course, they don't show it moving around. But arms and hands seem like better than other demo videos.
- pydry 3y agoThere's a weird dystopianness about having a machine that can write songs and poetry years or maybe decades before having one that can clean a toilet. It doesnt help that the automated future imagined in the past would "free up" people so that they could spend all of their time writing songs and poetry.
- jonnycomputer 3y agoTurns out millions of years of evolution make us really efficient manual laborers. We use so little energy to do all that we do, it's pretty amazing. But yes; I remember Ruby and the Galactic Gumshoe, the Andorrians were a race of artists who insisted that automation-induced unemployment was not a disease, it was the cure. When I think of the most secure jobs of the future, these days I think, toilet plumber and janitor.
- pydry 3y agoI dont think aggregate job security ever really had anything to do with automation - only wealth distribution. There is always 1000 things you can do for other people. The question is just do those other people have the money to pay for it after rent and bills. Increasingly they do not.
- alpaca128 3y agoSelf-cleaning public toilets have been a thing for years.