▲ | ben_w 17 hours ago | |
> Oh yeah? Instead of 5 years to render all human labor obsolete, it will take 20? The magnitude of that change is so large that the implications of it happening anytime in our lifetimes are too big to ignore. While true, I would suggest two things: First, that nobody actually knows how long it will take to make fully-general AI to drive robots, humanoid or otherwise. Look how long self-driving cars have taken, and that they're still geo-fenced. Second, that it doesn't take AI for the robots themselves to have 90% of this impact. All those jokes about AI meaning "Actually Indians"? Well, the same robots controlled not by artificial intelligence but by remote control from cheap 3rd world labourers who charge $5/day, will make current arguments about the effect of immigration on unemployment look laughably naïve. Likewise, unfortunately, crime, because one thing we can guarantee is that someone's going to share their password or access token and some rich person's cheap robot servant will become Mr. Stabby the unknown assassin. |