HonestIbrahim t1_jd6mkwu wrote on March 22, 2023 at 5:24 AM

This struck me as funny, “The rise of AI will free people up to do things that software never will—teaching, caring for patients, and supporting the elderly, for example.” But earlier in the article he explains how AI will help teach children math… so if you remove teaching from that list, I’m being ‘freed up’ from my current job to be an orderly or care giver. That is honorable work, but it doesn’t pay well, and I suspect competition for work won’t drive compensation higher unless the AI can help us unionize.

visarga t1_jd75vay wrote on March 22, 2023 at 9:51 AM

Don't worry, 10 years later AI will be better than us at everything so we all become its pupils. The hardest task for AGI will be to bring humans along. Think it was hard to bring AI to human level? You should see how hard it will be to bring humans to AI level.

singulthrowaway t1_jd8hzyj wrote on March 22, 2023 at 4:23 PM

Turns out those dreams about being inexplicably back in school as an adult were premonition.

incelo2 t1_jd9jsx8 wrote on March 22, 2023 at 8:20 PM

I only had one dream like that and it was the best I ever had

RadioFreeAmerika t1_jdhfcmm wrote on March 24, 2023 at 12:45 PM

Teaching will be outdated once the AI is in your head with you.

R33v3n t1_jd8eq5l wrote on March 22, 2023 at 4:02 PM

I have hope that in a world where AI takes care of most white collar work at post-scarcity scale, scarce human manual labor is what will increase in value and wealth. Artisans, agriculture, health, construction, and so on. A world where those who grow our food, build our homes or care for our children and elderly are valued as much or more as lawyers or bankers used to be.

As for competition for such manual work, I don't really believe it will be a problem. I don't know how things are in the US states, but in Québec (Canada) alone, we could use 4,000 extra nurses, right now. They'd appear out of thin air tomorrow morning and we'd have work lined up for them. Same with teachers, daycare, construction, everything manual that still has a bit of a skill barrier. Heck, not even that much of a skill barrier: we're even short on restaurant staff.

NeutrinosFTW t1_jd76joh wrote on March 22, 2023 at 10:01 AM

The king of capitalism unironically claiming that increased productivity frees people up to do other things is hilarious. Like, I hope so, but it hasn't been the case for at least the last half century, and if we leave it up to people like him, it definitely won't.