Artificial Intelligence & the Future of Humans

nivek

nivek

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Here's a pretty good read, well thus far, I've read into part two...

Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Humans - Pew Research Center

Experts say the rise of artificial intelligence will make most people better off over the next decade, but many have concerns about how advances in AI will affect what it means to be human, to be productive and to exercise free will.

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A vehicle and person recognition system for use by law enforcement is demonstrated at last year’s GPU Technology Conference in Washington, D.C., which highlights new uses for artificial intelligence and deep learning. (Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images)

Digital life is augmenting human capacities and disrupting eons-old human activities. Code-driven systems have spread to more than half of the world’s inhabitants in ambient information and connectivity, offering previously unimagined opportunities and unprecedented threats. As emerging algorithm-driven artificial intelligence (AI) continues to spread, will people be better off than they are today?

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SOUL-DRIFTER

SOUL-DRIFTER

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Yes we will be better off.
But the best to come to humans will be mental and physical enhancements through genetics.
Future humans average IQ will be around the 200 - 250 with neural implants to mentally communicate with machines and perhaps AI for commands and functions. Eventually mental capacities will reach a point that humans will control machines without implants and override AI functions.
Eventually AI and machines will slowly cease to be of use. But that is a very far off future....

IMHO
 
Dejan Corovic

Dejan Corovic

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Exactly, as long as AI upgrades are rolled out equally to a whole nation, there are no moral issues. Moralizing by 'cool brigade' starts if some get blue eyes and others don't. If whole nation gets blue eyes everybody's happy.

Of course, OFF button must be included in a standard package.
 
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Dejan Corovic

Dejan Corovic

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Few things I forgot:

1) No more cookies :)
2) All the company directors and shareholder board members must be implanted as test dummies for at least 6 months.
3) Free upgrades
4) Head Up Display included.
5) Free Internet with Network Neutrality :)
 
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ChrisIB

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In the near term there will be a move to a four day working week, it will be couched in terms of being more productive, less stress.
Amazon Alexa and Google hub will be replaced with talking heads, to encourage us to relate.
Buses will go, be replaced by pods.
 
Dejan Corovic

Dejan Corovic

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ChrisIB said:
In the near term there will be a move to a four day working week, it will be couched in terms of being more productive, less stress.
Amazon Alexa and Google hub will be replaced with talking heads, to encourage us to relate.
Buses will go, be replaced by pods.
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One thing most people don't know is that it is easier for AI to replace managers and bosses than workers. Bosses are usually the dumbest people in the supply chain.

In a famous Bell Research Labs, that practically created modern age out of nothing, there was a rule book with (I forgot) either 30,000 pages or 30,000 rules. At Bell Labs an average worker had Phd and average manager was just a dumbo keeping eye on expenses and deadlines. Because of that, one of 30k rules was, that at meting nobody was allowed to introduce himself with his academic titles. Obviously managers had no academic titles and would look inferior to the workers if academic titles were thrown in.
 
pigfarmer

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I think AI - and advances in computing capability as a whole - will be most effectively employed in genetic research. The horsepower is becoming available to effectively deal with the complexity involved.
But, start screwing around with our DNA even to the extent of say, eradicating cancer, and we have an existential threat. Not for exotic reasons like heavily modified humans flapping around like Mothman, but more like widespread famine and war over resources when our large and longer-lived population reaches a tipping point.
 
Dejan Corovic

Dejan Corovic

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pigfarmer said:
I think AI - and advances in computing capability as a whole - will be most effectively employed in genetic research. The horsepower is becoming available to effectively deal with the complexity involved.
But, start screwing around with our DNA even to the extent of say, eradicating cancer, and we have an existential threat. Not for exotic reasons like heavily modified humans flapping around like Mothman, but more like widespread famine and war over resources when our large and longer-lived population reaches a tipping point.
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Yeah, our real problem is not AI or even globalization. Our biggest problem is over-population. We need to stop growing population, while keep on growing economies.

We need to start reclaiming deserts like Sahara and Atacama, turning them back into arable land so that we can feed and sustain even present population.
 
nivek

nivek

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ChrisIB said:
In the near term there will be a move to a four day working week, it will be couched in terms of being more productive, less stress.
Amazon Alexa and Google hub will be replaced with talking heads, to encourage us to relate.
Buses will go, be replaced by pods.
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I think the four or five day work week ideas are messing around with a tipping point...If the average human works for five days a week, 8 hours a day, but then does absolutely nothing for two days of the weekend, he or she can still be a relatively healthy human being if he or she eats right and so forth...If the average human works 4 days a week, even if just 8 hours a day, but then does absolutely nothing for 3 days straight, it tips the scales towards encouraging laziness and sets a lazier tone for the future...That's just my two cents worth lol...

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nivek

nivek

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SOUL-DRIFTER said:
I was doing a 3 day work week when I was at Brakebush Brothers.
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A lot depends on what one does during the off days, the human body needs regular activity, not necessarily strenuous but active...Modern society with our current technology can make people tend to do less, which is nice sometimes but not good for long term IMO...

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nivek

nivek

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Dejan Corovic said:
Yeah, our real problem is not AI or even globalization. Our biggest problem is over-population. We need to stop growing population, while keep on growing economies.

We need to start reclaiming deserts like Sahara and Atacama, turning them back into arable land so that we can feed and sustain even present population.
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This should be at the top of the list as the most pressing and major problem facing mankind, our out of control population increase, it will be our undoing if nothing is done, we are talking extinction IMO...

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SOUL-DRIFTER

SOUL-DRIFTER

Life Long Researcher
nivek said:
A lot depends on what one does during the off days, the human body needs regular activity, not necessarily strenuous but active...Modern society with our current technology can make people tend to do less, which is nice sometimes but not good for long term IMO...

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Absolutely.
I always had something going on my off days.
 
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