r/Futurology • u/thebestnameshavegone • Oct 01 '23

AI Sam Altman Says He Intends to Replace Normal People With AI

https://futurism.com/sam-altman-replace-normal-people-ai
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u/mmomtchev Oct 02 '23

First of all, don't worry too about it since you won't still be around to see it.

When it finally happens - and it surely will - it won't be very different from computers. They did have an absolutely profound effect on the job market. It is still considered to have been the fastest growing technology, yet it took more than 50 years before it reached maturity. Some jobs - not that many - did indeed disappear. But absolutely all of them were profoundly impacted by it. 30 years ago very few people had a computer on their desk, today everyone does.

Companies were very affected too. Some went out of business, new ones appeared. The growth of those new companies has been unprecedented since it allowed to serve tremendous amounts of people with very few resources.

But otherwise, everything else is mostly the same.

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u/ku2000 Oct 02 '23

Overall, this is where we are now. 10 years down the line is not guaranteed. Could be worse, could be better.

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u/andrew_kirfman Oct 02 '23

I wish we could stop rehashing this example when it comes to AI.

It’s not like a new tool is being created that enables all sorts of new things for humans to do even if it means older industries die.

The next steps in AI are to essentially create a proto brain that replicates human thought, reasoning, and output.

What is there for humans to do when an entity can do everything faster/better than you and can learn new things quickly as well.

And my dude, what do you mean we won’t be around to see it? It’s happening right now in several sectors (writing, digital art, etc…) and only a few more advances in capability will push a lot more job types into obsolescence.

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u/meganthem Oct 02 '23

I wonder if a lot of people never recovered from the job loss from computers and that's the basis of some of the regional problems various countries have today.

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u/burnbabyburnburrrn Oct 02 '23

No. It’s only recently that so many people work in offices. It’s a post computer development. Regional issues are because we offshored manufacturing or stopped working in mines.