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nancyminusone a day ago

I can. AI says it will solve all problems, like curing cancer. Suppose it does. Now there are no more problems and no reason to run the AIs, at which time computing energy will fall rapidly.

The alternative is that there will always be problems, and we could spend as much as possible trying to compute solutions, but they will not be found.

inigyou a day ago | parent | next [-]

Maybe we'll all upload ourselves to the Dyson sphere, so there will be nothing left but computation.

bigbuppo a day ago | parent [-]

42.

scotty79 a day ago | parent | prev [-]

> Now there are no more problems and no reason to run the AIs,

Are you sure we are talking about the same species?

JackSlateur a day ago | parent [-]

Creating fake problems is not a caracteristic I would give to "a successful civilization" :)

scotty79 21 hours ago | parent [-]

Each solution generates new problems. That's the general physics of intelligence in our universe. Also label of "fake" is completely arbitrary. Because someone might call cancer a fake problem, because people shouldn't live too long and they need a reason to die.

JackSlateur 19 hours ago | parent [-]

A colleague of mine is fan of AI and we have, from time to time, serious discussion about that topic

Last week, I asked him in all seriousness: considering that everything you say is correct .. why the hell does you product still sucks ?!

He answered me: because of people

Perhaps people is the only problem that need solving :(

scotty79 7 hours ago | parent [-]

I think AI is going to enable a new future where most software products will have userbase of 1. And then they are not going to suck.