Ortus12 t1_irphcc4 wrote on October 10, 2022 at 1:10 AM

Ai came up the vaccine that saved millions of lives. That's a big impact to the end consumer. It also helped convince governments to open back up, and restart the economy which benefited all of us.

The content that gets recommended to you online is recommended by an Ai. Also a benefit to the end consumer.

Ai is almost certainly used by artists in the concept art and brainstorming stage of creation now, which means better looking TV shows, video games, and movies produced at a lower cost (more of them), which is a benefit to the end consumer.

Ai that's continually getting better is used for your netflix recommendations. And not only that it's used to determine which cover photo netflix displays for each movie you see. Again, for the end consumer.

Ai is used in spam and virus detection. All of the spam and viruses you don't get, you have Ai to thank much of the time.

Ai is used by the police to know where to patrol and when. Didn't get stabbed to death last night? Thanks to ever advancing Ai.

Ai is heavily used in Amazon, so all the cheap products you buy from there is thanks to Ai. The costs would be higher without Ai, and ever advancing robots in amazon facilities.

Walmart uses cameras and Ai to increase shelf stocking efficiency. By 90% in recent years in the meat isle. Your local grocery isn't out of whatever it is you were trying to buy, there's a chance you have Ai to thank for that.

Ai is embedded into every sector of the economy from business to supply chain optimization. Not starving to death today? Good chance you have Ai to thank for that.

Ai has been used to design T-Shirt images, Clothing designs, logo-designs, and even computer chips. The graphics capabilities of the latest video game you're playing, that's thanks to the Ai that designed the computer chips, As well as all of the Ai used to render the image. The latest game engines are using Ai in real time to render more detail with a higher accuracy.

Swiping through tinder to find a date? There's a good chance a large amount of the pictures you see were enhanced with Ai tools to make people look prettier and more handsome.

But that's just current benefits to the end consumer. Ai is being used in all sectors of the economy to improve and advance science, art, technology, and writing.

CleaverIam OP t1_irsmixc wrote on October 10, 2022 at 6:53 PM

Ok, AI has improved from useless to less useless. Is AI the only thing that has been developing in the last decade?

Ortus12 t1_irt8z2b wrote on October 10, 2022 at 9:28 PM

Weather "Technology" is improving fast or slow is a matter of perspective. I could point to tons of advances in science, biology, and other technologies, but you could just as easily say the first synthetic life, gene editing of human embryos, the solving of the protein folding problem, or tons of other discoveries, advancements, and life saving treatments, being figured out every single day, are not significant. It's all a matter of perspective.

But as far as self driving cars, and Ai doctors. These have been promised to be 5-10 years away for 70 years. Humans have vastly underestimated the complexity of human intelligence and problem solving, over and over throughout history.

But technology is moving in that direction. More and more powerful super computers, and better and better intelligence algorithms exist every year. It's like a train moving towards it's destination, and when human level AGI is created it will be super-human because computers are already superior in many ways to humans. Self driving cars and ai doctors will be solved along with the automation of nearly every other job in existence.

Ai scientists will be advancing technology and science faster than humans ever could. Shorty after that is when you get self replicators and commercial travel to terraformed mars. That's when technology and resources scale exponentially because intelligence itself is in a feedbackloop of growth.

I can't say when this future will occur, but it is what many call the singularity and it's why so many companies around the world have invested hundreds of billions of dollars into the problem, which has been measurable moving us closer and closer to that goal.

CleaverIam OP t1_iruvjl9 wrote on October 11, 2022 at 5:33 AM

I am not saying that we will not have another burst of exponential growth, or that we never had it. I am saying that consumer technology has improved little in the last decade or so. Much less than it had in the 60 and 70s. Right now, we don't have AGI, and all the things you listed are not happening right now.