3 ms·
Historically speaking, most of the philosophical question never got an answer by philosophy. They just tend to become obsolete as science advances -- and I cons
by NhanH 12y ago
Historically speaking, most of the philosophical question never got an answer by philosophy. They just tend to become obsolete as science advances -- and I consider any question regarding strong AI to be half philosophical by nature (100% unemployment can only happen with strong AI, otherwise we'd spend the last 0.0001% or whatever it is and focusing on developing strong AI)
With that in mind, there are a note: from what I've gathered from actual Machine learning and AI researchers, anything that resemble strong AI is not just far away, but ridiculously far away.
On a less tangent point: a lot of our economic system, and assumptions are based on a scarcity of resources (human labor is one of the scarcity). By the time automation could really take hold and realistically take over most of human's work, it seems to me that there are many things to be concern about rather than employment, and they depends on whether the model of economy is a scarcity or an abundance one, and whether it's actually sustainable or not etc.
- dm2 12y agoAI comes up a lot but in my opinion there is no guarantee that it will ever actually exist. AI is by definition is artificial and the lines between artificial and non-artificial will be blurred very soon as BCIs come around. If we take all deceased people's brains and throw them in a pool of goop that allows them to talk to each other and connect them to a BCI so that they can communicate with the rest of the world, is that Artificial Intelligence? I predict that we will have ultra-intelligent humans/transhumans and advanced AI might or might not ever come into existence. As expected, DARPA is leading most of the BCI research programs at the moment. I'm not sure how I feel about Super Soldiers and modifying humans, that's a huge topic in itself.