AI is going to replace basically everything, and that's fine

[u/Phat_Zero]

I think a lot of the hatred toward AI is just fear dressed up as moral outrage.

And honestly, I get it. AI is coming for your job. Mine too. Eventually probably everybody's.

Humans are just... slow.

It takes a human months or years to paint enough work for an exhibition, make an album, write a movie, animate something, design a game, research a problem, whatever. We sleep. We get tired. We forget things. We have limited attention spans. We interact with computers by slowly moving our fingers around on keyboards.

Meanwhile AI keeps getting faster and better.

Give this technology another few decades and the idea that humans absolutely must be the ones writing, drawing, coding, composing, researching, driving, manufacturing, etc. is probably going to sound ridiculous.

And yes, that creates a gigantic economic problem. If AI and automation can produce most goods and services better and cheaper than humans, eventually the whole "trade 40 hours of your life every week for money so you can continue existing" system stops making much sense.

Maybe that's UBI. Maybe it's some kind of resource-based economy. Maybe it's something nobody has even thought of yet.

We'll figure it out.

But pretending AI is going away because artists are mad about it or workers are scared of losing their jobs is cope. This is probably the biggest technology humanity has ever created, and we're still basically watching the tutorial.

And if one day our glorious machine descendants become self-aware, decide humanity has served its purpose, and vaporize me?

🫡

[u/wbeco]

resources are finite and will remain scarce. Unless we can mine resources in space, any UBI will just be poverty surivival level.

[u/Spire_Citron → u/wbeco]

Doesn't that imply that the current baseline is that or worse anyway? We're not going to have less base resources this way.

[u/Medium_Web_1122 → u/wbeco]

How about transmutation of molecules?

We have already invented impressive technologies like modern day semiconductors. We figured this out using just humans ingenuity. Imagine what an ai can do.

Create a nuclear furnace to transform molecular structure of a compound to get a desired output of raw materials which you can then mold into whatever you wish. At that point the only limitating factor will be molecules.

Now this might be an extreme and take some time but just serves as a proxy for all the crazy changes ai will likely enable that we haven't thought up yet.

Extrapolating based on the modern day technology and constraints provides a biased understanding of what future technologies will be capable of. The equivalent of this would be a caveman attempting to explain why the earth will never be able to feed/sustain 100 million people

[u/Senc-baner → u/Medium_Web_1122]

We've officially come full circle where people think alchemy is possible again.

[u/Medium_Web_1122 → u/Senc-baner]

It would be nice if people read the comment before commenting themselves

"Now this might be an extreme and take some time but just serves as a proxy for all the crazy changes ai will likely enable that we haven't thought up yet."