hbar 12 points 3 years ago

I think the rich will get richer, the poor will have less, and eventually AGI will emerge, blowing past our ability to control it and kill us all.

I'll be happy though if at some point before societal collapse we get some generative model that produces season 2 of Firefly.

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Veritas 7 points 3 years ago

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nachtigall 4 points 3 years ago

Sounds like today but the drones are called "cops" in this timeline

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FuzzyDunlop 5 points 3 years ago

It won't impact our society because it won't have enough time to do it since global warming and the lack of resource will ravage our way of life anyway.

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bappity 4 points 3 years ago

AI as it is right now is just a very convincing bullshit machine with a mountain of training data, if you mean that then I think it'll at most be a tool to assist people in their jobs not something to completely replace them.

If we do manage to create actual Artificial Intelligence: as things are now, we are NOT ready for that. In my opinion, it probably wouldn't go down so well (putting it lightly)

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mkhoury -1 points 3 years ago

AI will come up with technological solutions to societal problems so effective and straightforward that it will raise the floor for everybody. Everyone will be able to be educated and empathetic to other people's realities. Rich people will have their greed channeled toward endeavours that will help all humans. We will flourish in happiness forever. We will eventually spread through the universe in a great utopian wave. We will uplift all animals, we will resurrect all beings that have ever lived and bring them into this utopia as well. Good times wil be held by all.

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FuzzyDunlop 6 points 3 years ago

AI will come up with technological solutions to societal problems so effective and straightforward that it will raise the floor for everybody.

"Please scientists, tell us what to do to overcome global warming"
"You need to reduce your consumption, there is no other way"
"Wait, what? What do you mean?"
"We mean that you need to purchase less stuff"
"No, there must be an error, are they crazy? We need a real solution! Let's ask the AI instead"

"Oh, AI, please tell us how we can overcome the challenge of global warming!"
"computing... You need to reduce your consumption"
"Nonono.... wait a sec.... opens the box.... Look, it's these damned scientists again!"

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mkhoury 1 point 3 years ago

Totally, it might also come up with persuasive methods to convince the corporations to reduce their consumption-- giving them an alternate revenue source, giving them tech that makes the climate effect of consumption drastically lower, finding ways to resolve the Moloch games in satisfactory manner, etc. These are just examples. I think AI might give us an opportunity to reset some of our deep human societal dynamics, just like the Industrial Revolution did. And hopefully it can do it in a virtuous cycle manner.

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