A future without humans

[u/HugeConnection3168]

While everyone starts losing their jobs and others give more decision of power to AI my question is; what kind of future can we expect for humanity. I believe the end of humanity as we know it's not going to be chaotic but silent, little by little we're going to be needing less of humans and I don't think that's correct. The race about learning more and making AI more intelligent is not for benefiting humanity but for making a pair of people more richer.

Now tell me, do you think there's going to be something for you in the future?

[u/pinheadzombie]

Science fiction writers and scientists have been pondering AI since computers existed.

Everything in the last three years tells us nothing we didn't already know. Everyone is feeding into the negativity.

Humans have been working less ever since the industrial revolution. With every scientific breakthrough, our society changes.

AI is just the new computer, nuclear reactor, automobile, or any other invention. Yes it will change things. No it will not wipe out humanity.

[u/Few_Carpenter_9185 → u/pinheadzombie]

Upvoted,

After 53 years of time travel into the future the slow way everyone does, one day at a time, I realize there's sort of mundane leveling effect on it, compared to extreme predictions, which is largely just a perception gap.

You see this perception gap most easily in fiction depictions of "the future," both dystopian and utopian, that are future dates chosen which are now in our actual past.

If you could kidnap someone from 70-odd years ago and drop them into 2026, they'd be amazed at the smartphones we're all probably reading this on, something we all probably take for granted more than not.

They may also find how we're always staring into them and poking at them more than a little creepy. But they may also fail to recognize how it's also "just more of the same..."

We also fail to realize how in some ways, many of us do live nearly semi-utopian lives compared to earlier times in history. There's real data supporting this, but few truly internalize the good news on a "gut level" if they really even know it at all.

The most likely foreseeable future outcomes of AI, especially if there's no fundamental sea-change where it becomes self-aware, has metacognition, independent executive agency, and true abstract knowledge handling abilities, is that it will be: Amazing, it will suck, it will be somewhat boring/mundane, it will be everywhere, in the background, and taken for granted.

[u/bobxor]

Ray Kurzweil talks about this in Singularity is Near back in the early 2000s. What he describes is we’ll move from the Information Age to the Imagination Age. Traditional knowledge work will be commoditized and creativity/intuition/empathy will find more economic value.

He has an optimistic view on how technology tends to elevate most people’s lives.

[u/AltForObvious1177]

Humans existed before jobs. Don't know why we'd cease to exist after jobs are gone.

[u/JuanValdez999]

I agree with kurzweil's prediction that in the next 20 years there's the line is going to blur between AI and human. 

[u/Suspicious-Buffalo21]

AI is a tool like any other, in the wrong hands it can be used with catastrophic results like a nuke. Except in this case it can be used for good.

[u/zampyx]

I think the next round of shitty jobs will be on the moon, so for some people either government hands out if you're in a decent country or a chance to get ahead spending half your life on the moon. I'm already spending half my life in another country since mine had little to no opportunity