Suppose we modeled this as two separate countries:

* AI Island: just runs AI in data centers.

* Elsewhere: same as now.

Wouldn't there be gains from trade?

Sure, AI Island might be able to provide lots of cheap Internet services, but you can't eat Internet. Wouldn't they want something in exchange?

And wouldn't there still be lots of jobs in Elsewhere that can't be done over the Internet and have nothing to do with AI Island? If AI Island charges too much, they can always trade among themselves.

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monknomo 4 hours ago | parent [-]

I think this mentions that AI Island also has robots than can produce most goods

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skybrian 4 hours ago | parent [-]

I don't see why we should take that scenario seriously.

In part because agriculture is already heavily mechanized and many factories already have lots of robots. How much would access to an LLM improve the robots?

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throwway120385 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Assuming a good enough LLM, you can say something like "Please find me a site with optimum growing conditions for beetroot in the next year and arrange to have the field planted and maintained until the harvest season for beetroot is over" and then just let 'er rip.

What's crazy about that is it's essentially post-scarcity if we want it to be. Or what's most likely to happen is that in the US we'll all be sucking down water laced with contraceptives in terrafoam while our corporate masters wait for us to die off so they can inherit all of the land.

	▲	skybrian 3 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		That's getting way ahead of ourselves considering that currently, AI can't even be trusted to run a vending machine. Also, if that's such a great deal, why not invest in someone else's company that runs a farm? Let's say we have two companies, one which has a human manager (and maybe uses AI for research) and one that just has AI. Is the AI really going to do better?
	▲	whateveracct 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		good enough LLMs aren't genies lol
	▲	leptons 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Except very few people will actually be able to buy beetroot or anything else because there won't be any jobs. The wealth is all concentrating at the top into very few hands.