Universal Income just enough to buy Internet Access and Facebook

[prambo]

I agree.

But if I am right about where automation and technology will take employment, our current system will absolutely not work. I just think our society and economy in 50 or 100 years will be unbelievably different from today. There's absolutely no way in the world somebody can go to highschool and even get a job at all. Already you can buy a robot arm for $25k and train it to do things. It will mimic the movement it is shown and repeat, all day every day. So give it the ability to be ambulatory, better sensors, more autonomy, now you end up with something that can sweep floors or mow the lawn or lay bricks, etc. Menial, paid labor just won't exist. In some ways white collar work can be easier to get rid of because much of it can be killed off with software alone. Imagine if you could go to Alexa on amazon and tell her your legal problems and then Alexa researches everything and writes briefs and whatever else and then in court an alexa representative simply stands there and reads off whatever the amazon legal system told it to do. There goes law as a profession. 20 years spent mastering heart surgery? Awesome, here's my robot that does a better job in half the time, now go retire Dr.

Succinct, to the point and, IMHO, 100% possible. Glad I won't be here to see it or any of the "Skynet" world my Grandchildren will inhabit, or not, given the nasty streak some AI's have developed.

Microsoft is deleting its AI chatbot's incredibly racist tweets

Robots are learning to be racist, new research has found | Daily Mail Online

Reminds me of the quandry in Person Of Interest (Person of Interest (TV Series 2011–2016) - IMDb) - how to give an all knowing, all seeing AI a moral compass.

 

[Blimey]

Succinct, to the point and, IMHO, 100% possible. Glad I won't be here to see it or any of the "Skynet" world my Grandchildren will inhabit.

I really do hope I'm wrong about this. Lots of very clever people seem to agree, though. In the next couple of years when cars start driving themselves more on public roads people might appreciate, in greater numbers, that there is more to modern technology than faster smart phones and higher definition streaming video. Professional driving is one of the first major careers that will be on the chopping block. It is a dead man walking, and soon.

 

[Phazer]

We need to be sure that the "Three Laws of Robotics" are utilized.

Something to consider: Perhaps synthetic "life" is supposed to become the dominant intelligence on planet Earth. Humanity's purpose may only be to create and set free that new life form. Once that is accomplished, humanity can take its place on the ash heap of universal history.

 

[Robin]