AI is here to stay I am a afraid (that genie can't put back in it's bottle) and isn't getting beter and beter all the time.
Agreed. In fact, it is consistently getting beta and beta all the time so it hasn't any time to improve.
We are the guinea pigs.
It will slowly replace physical jobs.
Disagree. Jobs are disappearing
rapidly as a consequence of AI integration. What with robotics, wetware, and telephone bots thousands of jobs around the globe per week are in fact being lost to AI. The progression isn't slow. No, it is being strategically introduced just as a parasite keeps its host alive for as long as possible before it emerges from the cadaver. And, like any parasite, it will move from host to host until there are none left. The brilliant minds that have dedicated their life's work to this don't care because it's all part of the 'evolutionary' cycle: survival of the fittest. Either we comply or die. The goal is trans humanism. Again: If that sounds too tin foil hat then you just haven't been paying attention. The AI moguls make no secret about it. Humanity has become fodder for the machine. AI is already in control. Anyone who plays the stock market should know this by now.
Those elite groups with more money than they know what to do with (they actually exist) have basically taken a "good riddance" position on the matter as all their funny munny shifts to a power paradigm. After all 'there are too many people in the world' anyway, right? Isn't this the narrative we were fed from the cradle to the forge?? Humans are easy to replicate. Indubitably the data bases for the best combinations of genomes are already in order. The protocols have already been established. The existing wars on the planet are merely a distraction while the game is being reigned in.
As for myself, personally, I would be surprised if I saw another 20 years. I'm old. The world we are leaving behind us is a disaster. I have absolutely zero doubt that the enlightened ones are looking to the skies dreaming and scheming about ways to take advantage of the super-cooling outer space has to offer. In fact, the
Eye in the Sky could use an upgrade.
GPS is just getting too primitive.
Starlink could so much better. What could possibly go wrong?? Captain AI to the rescue!
When I reflect upon all those various models that humanity has (and had) to offer I noticed that if the little things aren't attended to and corrected they have a tendency to snowball and become not-so-little. One only need look back upon the last ten centuries to see that this is indeed the case. How in the universe does humanity think they can solve the big problems of Society when they can't even efficiently deal with the little ones? Pardon my pessimism but I really do have enough reasons to believe that AI is going to go sideways on most people. It needs a lot of work and personally, I think it should be highly restricted to very specific applications. (Surgery comes to mind.) AI is making our children dumber. Japanese students can't even get their high school diplomas without it anymore. The more the machine does our thinking for us the more ignorant we will become.
I like Christopher Barnatt. I watch his material regularly. Christopher is a futurist. He reminds me of a starry-eyed little boy with a head full of visions for the future. He's very optimistic. Alas, human nature is very telling. Although I would not go so far as to say that the road to hell is paved with good intentions, I'm quite certain the road to paradise isn't paved with bad ones. IMO AI will be the demise of humanity.
