Yeah the mini was the only iphone that has ever really tempted me. Sad it wasn't too successful. I hate the trend of more premium phones all being larger.

I bet Alex had shitloads of cocaine.

Yup, that easy.

Yup, only takes 1 or 2 idiots out of 10's of thousands of protestors for them to get a clip and paint the whole protest as being violent and full of idiots.

Would they still be able to reproduce with people with 46 chromosomes?

As you hinted at, incompetent employees already make expensive mistakes. Once AI gets to a point where it makes less expensive mistakes, employers would be incentivised to replace the people with machines.

Driving is an easy example, humans crash, AI will still get involved in crashes, but if it is involved in significantly fewer crashes then it would seem almost irresponsible to have humans driving.

I think ultimately it just comes down to me having higher expectations of AI ability than others.

Have you played around with chat gpt? I'd highly recommend it, it's pretty incredible, and a lot of it's limitations are ones that have been intentionally placed on it e.g. it doesn't have access to information from the last year or 2, and there are certain topics it has been restricted from talking about(e.g. race issues and religion).

Ok, so the narrow AIs that are coming in the next several years will only be able to do the job 95% of the time. It'll still take a lot of jobs. What do we do with all of the people it replaces?

Honestly a lot of these replies read like people are threatened and being defensive "there's no way it could do MY job".

Cool. It will be able to do a lot of stuff and massively reduce the number of jobs that require people is my point. What do we do about all of the unemployment?

Pretty minor roles probably make up 50+% of the workforce.

What are all the people with no jobs going to do?

I think many folk understimate AI. We can essentially program for outcomes and let the AI figure it out from there.

Sure, people will still be needed for a lot of stuff and for the foreseeable future they will be making the high level decisions and giving the AI goals, but it will still have the power to automate a lot of jobs.

We are incremental improvements away from convincing dialogue with humans, there goes many phone based roles(tech/customer support and sales). Driving(freight, delivery), factories, fast food, cashiers. All could easily be on their way out soon if we don't actively try to stop it. New roles will come up, but likely in much lower numbers.

Not a true AGI, but tools powerful enough to make a significant portion of jobs obsolete feels very close. Change has been accelerating(basically forever) and we now live in a world that is very different from a decade ago, whereas centuries used to pass where not much changed and most died in a world similar to the one they were born in.

It's definitely something we should think about before it is right around the corner, and it is plausible in our lifetimes(I guess depending on your age).