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Five of the Scariest Predictions About Artificial Intelligence

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When people think of artificial intelligence (AI), scenes of android killers and computers-gone-rogue often come to mind.

Hollywood films like "Blade Runner" and "The Terminator" franchise have instilled in us a sense of dread at the thought of an AI going against its programming and turning on humans.

For an industry that could generate over $1 trillion in business value this year, and almost $4 trillion by 2022, any major doubts over its ethical implications could hold significant consequences.

Read the full story: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/01/five...ns-for-ai.html

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  • Profile picture of the author Odahh
    though these are all valid .. every technical advancement since the weaving machines 200 plus years ago has been supposed to come with mass unemployment .. we have seen an explosion in employment around the world in the last 30 years .. there just won't be the mass industrial employment ..we talk about the low cots business nearly anyone can start..

    plus the shift will happen over the next 20 years ..and mainly effect older workers ..who would be retiring anyway ..anyone likely to find themselves completely useless..and unwilling to take freely available skill training courses .. or willing to start upgrading their skill now .. is probably stuffing what ever junkfood they can down their gullet commiting a slow suicide.. or turning to addiction that may lead to overdose ..

    for the semi healthy but jobless .. there will be basic living stipends /disability checks.. ssi checks.. or some money.. and they can sit on cheep internet all day ..

    all these people who will lose their jobs are just making real bad choices now .. their fault..( that is not my real view ) we have an education system still training people or youth .. for a industrial factory type work setting ..and a college system burdening those who go through it with large amounts of debt ) to get skill that are ofeten obsolete when they get into the real world .. and a system that was designed so those who didn't go to college .. had to take menial jobs .. that are now getting replaced by automation ..eliminated because of rising minimum wages

    as for the other predictions ..the mass surveillance has been going on for 30 years .. and ai just gives more tools.. but also gives everyone eyes to watch everyone .. ..war robots already a thing..if the USA drops a hundred war robots in a develpoing country ..and had them systematical hunt down supposed enemies ..it would just be bad pr when the pictures of slaughtered children and old women hit the world wide news
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  • Profile picture of the author ryanbiddulph
    Thank goodness for AI; I'd still be reading container numbers in a New Jersey container terminal at midnight versus island hopping as a pro blogger hehehehe

    I got the pink slip due to my employer investing $600 million in computerizing processes, leading to a lay off of 60 pier guards. I was happy, tired of menial labor. But most guards saw it as their funeral.

    AI goads folks to resist change and struggle or to accept change and go with the flow. Progress is good; I can reach Bali in 23 hours via plane versus 23 weeks via ship. Or something like that. Ditto for driving cars versus riding horses. Jobs always avail themselves in an abundant Universe; be nimble and develop skills to be of service, to prosper and to go with the AI flow.

    Side note; I adore the computerized kiosks at McD's and Wendy's these days. Saw 'em first in New Zealand a few months ago and more in NYC recently. Plus the screen does not roll its eyes or rush me; good little AI....so polite!

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    • Profile picture of the author Odahh
      Originally Posted by ryanbiddulph View Post

      Thank goodness for AI; I'd still be reading container numbers in a New Jersey container terminal at midnight versus island hopping as a pro blogger hehehehe

      I got the pink slip due to my employer investing $600 million in computerizing processes, leading to a lay off of 60 pier guards. I was happy, tired of menial labor. But most guards saw it as their funeral.

      AI goads folks to resist change and struggle or to accept change and go with the flow. Progress is good; I can reach Bali in 23 hours via plane versus 23 weeks via ship. Or something like that. Ditto for driving cars versus riding horses. Jobs always avail themselves in an abundant Universe; be nimble and develop skills to be of service, to prosper and to go with the AI flow.

      Side note; I adore the computerized kiosks at McD's and Wendy's these days. Saw 'em first in New Zealand a few months ago and more in NYC recently. Plus the screen does not roll its eyes or rush me; good little AI....so polite!

      Ryan
      yeah here is the thing .. there should be no mass unemployment for something that has been happening for at least 40 years already .. the main thing causing the mass unemployment will be high minimum wages and making it extremely difficult to fire people ..

      the more expensive governments make it to hire people and the harder it makes it to fire people .. the faster business owners will adopt automation .. and the harder it will be for poor undereducated people to find jobs to get skills .. or earn money to do anything to update their skills ..


      I have worked production jobs where i used or ran machinery.. and i have gotten replaced by or learned to run automated equipment..if i had stayed at the last job i worked in as a temp 3 years ago.. before they replaced the machines that needed 15 people that i had learned to run.. i would have been hired on to run/operate the fully automated line that needed 1 operator ..and 2 or 3 people ..

      in my view it is not the production workers or people in the factories .. that have to fear losing the jobs.. it's he large number of hr ,managers and other whos job it is to make sure those people are working .. that will no longer be needed ..
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