There is no reason currently to believe there will EVER be such a think as what you call 'general AI' (i.e like something out of I, Robot) because we have no bloody idea how a human brain does that -- and as such your entire comment just helps spread fear, uncertainty, doubt, and PANIC. Knock it off.
Let's frame this a little differently, shall we? It sounds like at least some of these problems are pretty much only a problem if we trust too much the half-assed excuse for AI they keep trotting out. These software idiots aren't anywhere near as capable as most people think they are, and THAT is the real danger. We need competent human beings monitoring them constantly for when (not IF, but WHEN) they screw up. Remember, kids: these machines can't really think, not anywhere near like you define the word.
General purpose AI and advanced robotics are able to replace everything a human can do.
I'm going to stop you right there because your assumption is completely and totally incorrect. So-called 'AI' as it currently exists, and for the forseeable future, is not in any way, shape, or form equivalent to a human being. We have NO IDEA how human brains are self-aware, capable of actual 'thought', capable of having a 'personality', etcetera, and so-called 'artificial intelligence' is not capable of these things; there is no 'mind' inside that box, it's just a computer running software. Calm down, take a breath, and embrace the reality: advances in technology have happened before, will keep happening, they cause some disturbance of human employment, some types of employment may become obsolete, but new types always spring up to take their place, and life goes on. Please, please, stop drinking the media-supplied Kool-Aid, they do NOT know what they're talking about, MOST PEOPLE don't know what they're talking about, humans will never be 'obsolete', Just keep calm and carry on, okay?
There are precisely 100 words in my comment, and in that short amount of text, you managed to come away thinking I don't like intermittent windshield wipers on my vehicles? Seriously, your reading comprehension is so terrible that you got it exactly backwards? Is English not your native language or something?
The people who nail together the floors, walls, ceilings, roofs, and what-not of your house are carpenters of one sort or another. They're usually members of the carpenters' union.
'Carpentry is a niche market'? Really? You say this unironically? Guess what: your house wouldn't exist without an entire TEAM of carpenters, who know how to build houses. Oh and also a whole 'nother team of plumbers, electricians, and so on. 'Electric saws and drills' only made their jobs FASTER, they did not replace them.
There is such a thing as having a sense of SCALE, which this doesn't seem to; it comes off as excessive, and as conspicuous consumption; like poking everyone else in the eye. Also it's actually pretty useless. I could spend a couple hundred bucks and build a clock that wouldn't need to be set for DECADES, who the hell needs a clock that'll run for 10000 years?
I can say whatever I want and there is NOTHING you or anyone else can do about it. So go scream at your monitor and pound your keyboard more. I have no respect for rich assholes who throw their money around on useless stupid things, and I'm FAR from being alone in that sentiment, so how about you bugger off?
LOL you mean me?
I do not own a smart TV
Cellphone is a $50 basic flip-phone that's turned off 95% of the time
I don't play games on my PC, and there is no microphone or camera attached to it
Work laptop has the camera and microphone physically disabled
I think you're just angry because you bought into all that crap and now your wife and kids will make your life miserable if you try to get rid of them. So tell us: how are you enjoying being under a microscope 24/7/365? Is it fun for you? xD
There's no way in hell I'd tolerate any of this shit in any vehicle I owned. o Radio
o Climate control
o Maybe electric door locks and electric windows
o Intermittent wipers
o Cruise control
o Preferably a light pickup truck, with a stick-shift
That's all I need in a vehicle. It's transportation, not a lifestyle choice.
Maybe if more people stopped thinking of it as a lifestyle choice and more like transportation, paid attention to the road and being a decent driver, we wouldn't have many of the problems we currently have -- and wouldn't need self-driving cars, either.
As if Russian nationals stirring shit up here in the U.S. isn't bad enough, now we've got Chinese nationals jumping on the FUD bandwagon.
AI is going to take ALL YOUR JOBS, EVERYBODY NEEDS TO PANIC!!!1!
Want to be smart about this? Pay no attention to the communist behind the curtain. It's entirely in the best interests of China to stamp on the U.S. anthill as much as possible, make us all run around in circles screaming The Sky Is Falling, because panicked people's higher reasoning abilities turn 'OFF' when they're in a panic.
Historically, technological advances always cause some disruption in employment, but it never lasts, and even if some types of jobs become obsolete, new types of employment spring up to take their place.
That's the reality of the situation. Also:
So-called 'Artificial Intelligence' is highly overrated, over-hyped, and not anywhere near as capable as advertised by marketers and The Media.
Sorry, ladies and gentlemen, but we're nowhere near having K.I.T.T. in our cars, or anywhere else for that matter. Current so-called 'AI' has no personality, has no ability to actually 'think', is not self-aware, and in no way shape or form can possibly replace human beings in any but a limited number of ways.
Keep calm, and carry on, folks.
That's what you need to do. Everything is going to be fine.
The only real 'danger' from so-called 'AI' is that some people will trust it too much, potentially leading to disaster.
..so don't rely on it. Question it continually, and trust your own skill, experience, and judgement, it's just computer software, not a living mind.
Listen friend: I hate Trump at least as much as the next guy, but your comment is off-topic, and I do have a problem with rich assholes and their Conspicuous Consumption, so as far as I'm concerned I'll damned well tell him where he should be spending his damn money.
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There is no reason currently to believe there will EVER be such a think as what you call 'general AI' (i.e like something out of I, Robot) because we have no bloody idea how a human brain does that -- and as such your entire comment just helps spread fear, uncertainty, doubt, and PANIC. Knock it off.
You should really put a tag at the end of comments like that so people know you're being sarcastic.
*sigh*
Let's frame this a little differently, shall we? It sounds like at least some of these problems are pretty much only a problem if we trust too much the half-assed excuse for AI they keep trotting out. These software idiots aren't anywhere near as capable as most people think they are, and THAT is the real danger. We need competent human beings monitoring them constantly for when (not IF, but WHEN) they screw up. Remember, kids: these machines can't really think, not anywhere near like you define the word.
Slashdot is starting to sound like a Michael Bay movie.
General purpose AI and advanced robotics are able to replace everything a human can do.
I'm going to stop you right there because your assumption is completely and totally incorrect. So-called 'AI' as it currently exists, and for the forseeable future, is not in any way, shape, or form equivalent to a human being. We have NO IDEA how human brains are self-aware, capable of actual 'thought', capable of having a 'personality', etcetera, and so-called 'artificial intelligence' is not capable of these things; there is no 'mind' inside that box, it's just a computer running software. Calm down, take a breath, and embrace the reality: advances in technology have happened before, will keep happening, they cause some disturbance of human employment, some types of employment may become obsolete, but new types always spring up to take their place, and life goes on. Please, please, stop drinking the media-supplied Kool-Aid, they do NOT know what they're talking about, MOST PEOPLE don't know what they're talking about, humans will never be 'obsolete', Just keep calm and carry on, okay?
My response to this is more or less the same as my comment in another thread: https://slashdot.org/comments....
There are precisely 100 words in my comment, and in that short amount of text, you managed to come away thinking I don't like intermittent windshield wipers on my vehicles? Seriously, your reading comprehension is so terrible that you got it exactly backwards? Is English not your native language or something?
The people who nail together the floors, walls, ceilings, roofs, and what-not of your house are carpenters of one sort or another. They're usually members of the carpenters' union.
'Carpentry is a niche market'? Really? You say this unironically? Guess what: your house wouldn't exist without an entire TEAM of carpenters, who know how to build houses. Oh and also a whole 'nother team of plumbers, electricians, and so on. 'Electric saws and drills' only made their jobs FASTER, they did not replace them.
I think you need to calm down and stop drinking the Kool-Aid that the media keeps filling your cup with, friend.
No, you.
UBI is bullshit and a non-starter and believing in it unironically just proves you're bad at math. Stop bringing it up.
There is such a thing as having a sense of SCALE, which this doesn't seem to; it comes off as excessive, and as conspicuous consumption; like poking everyone else in the eye. Also it's actually pretty useless. I could spend a couple hundred bucks and build a clock that wouldn't need to be set for DECADES, who the hell needs a clock that'll run for 10000 years?
Well, according to ultra-fundamentalists/Dominionists if you are poor it is because you are lazy.
Fixed that for you.
Then how about spending $42M on researching what WILL end homelessness?
Well then if true then maybe he needs better PR people so the optics on something like this don't write a false narrative.
You've been spotted, go back to 4chan and lurk more.
Yeah that's what I thought: you don't have the strength of your convictions, you're just full of hot air.
I can say whatever I want and there is NOTHING you or anyone else can do about it. So go scream at your monitor and pound your keyboard more. I have no respect for rich assholes who throw their money around on useless stupid things, and I'm FAR from being alone in that sentiment, so how about you bugger off?
LOL you mean me?
I do not own a smart TV
Cellphone is a $50 basic flip-phone that's turned off 95% of the time
I don't play games on my PC, and there is no microphone or camera attached to it
Work laptop has the camera and microphone physically disabled
I think you're just angry because you bought into all that crap and now your wife and kids will make your life miserable if you try to get rid of them. So tell us: how are you enjoying being under a microscope 24/7/365? Is it fun for you? xD
There's no way in hell I'd tolerate any of this shit in any vehicle I owned.
o Radio
o Climate control
o Maybe electric door locks and electric windows
o Intermittent wipers
o Cruise control
o Preferably a light pickup truck, with a stick-shift
That's all I need in a vehicle. It's transportation, not a lifestyle choice.
Maybe if more people stopped thinking of it as a lifestyle choice and more like transportation, paid attention to the road and being a decent driver, we wouldn't have many of the problems we currently have -- and wouldn't need self-driving cars, either.
AI is going to take ALL YOUR JOBS, EVERYBODY NEEDS TO PANIC!!!1!
Want to be smart about this? Pay no attention to the communist behind the curtain. It's entirely in the best interests of China to stamp on the U.S. anthill as much as possible, make us all run around in circles screaming The Sky Is Falling, because panicked people's higher reasoning abilities turn 'OFF' when they're in a panic.
Historically, technological advances always cause some disruption in employment, but it never lasts, and even if some types of jobs become obsolete, new types of employment spring up to take their place.
That's the reality of the situation. Also:
So-called 'Artificial Intelligence' is highly overrated, over-hyped, and not anywhere near as capable as advertised by marketers and The Media.
Sorry, ladies and gentlemen, but we're nowhere near having K.I.T.T. in our cars, or anywhere else for that matter. Current so-called 'AI' has no personality, has no ability to actually 'think', is not self-aware, and in no way shape or form can possibly replace human beings in any but a limited number of ways.
Keep calm, and carry on, folks.
That's what you need to do. Everything is going to be fine.
The only real 'danger' from so-called 'AI' is that some people will trust it too much, potentially leading to disaster.
..so don't rely on it. Question it continually, and trust your own skill, experience, and judgement, it's just computer software, not a living mind.
Post from an actual account and maybe I'll take you seriously.
Keep your surveillance devices out of my house.
Listen friend: I hate Trump at least as much as the next guy, but your comment is off-topic, and I do have a problem with rich assholes and their Conspicuous Consumption, so as far as I'm concerned I'll damned well tell him where he should be spending his damn money.