Rockwood
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Had a discussion with a couple of friends the other day. My stance (now) is that AI (like the Internet before that, and computers before that, and television before that, and radio, and electricity, and cars, and the cotton gin, etc) won't displace us, just change us.
Replacing human processing power will be hard. As @Toy Collector said in that crazy AI uses thread: we have a super computer in our heads. To expand, that supercomputer runs on 2kwh per day (along with mobility, adaptable fine motor control, self-repair and replication) and fits in a chair. A supercomputer of equivalent processing fills a medium building and runs on mWh/day. The scalability of AI will meet some serious roadblocks coming up, and without true quantum computing, will have trouble replacing us. From my use of AI, all I've seen is regurgitation of existing human thought, but no true innovation that makes us special. The music in the thread mentioned above is formulaic pop garbage. You won't see Iron Maiden to Metallica, or The Beatles, or a number of other actual unique sounds or shifts. When Google returns "AI" results (which I find useful), it's generally summaries of shit that some other human came up with, then gives it to me in this weird (though easily parsed) format. I can then scan that and glean information from it to help me form independent thoughts that the AI never really comes up with.
So, it won't replace us (yet). That being said, it will replace a lot of the torture at work for us. Slogging through forms, bullshit processes, cross-referencing, all of the things that computers are supposed to do for us will be fairly automatic just by asking.
My main concern is which master will it serve. I'm assuming I won't like the answer to this.
Replacing human processing power will be hard. As @Toy Collector said in that crazy AI uses thread: we have a super computer in our heads. To expand, that supercomputer runs on 2kwh per day (along with mobility, adaptable fine motor control, self-repair and replication) and fits in a chair. A supercomputer of equivalent processing fills a medium building and runs on mWh/day. The scalability of AI will meet some serious roadblocks coming up, and without true quantum computing, will have trouble replacing us. From my use of AI, all I've seen is regurgitation of existing human thought, but no true innovation that makes us special. The music in the thread mentioned above is formulaic pop garbage. You won't see Iron Maiden to Metallica, or The Beatles, or a number of other actual unique sounds or shifts. When Google returns "AI" results (which I find useful), it's generally summaries of shit that some other human came up with, then gives it to me in this weird (though easily parsed) format. I can then scan that and glean information from it to help me form independent thoughts that the AI never really comes up with.
So, it won't replace us (yet). That being said, it will replace a lot of the torture at work for us. Slogging through forms, bullshit processes, cross-referencing, all of the things that computers are supposed to do for us will be fairly automatic just by asking.
My main concern is which master will it serve. I'm assuming I won't like the answer to this.
