Remember when people used to say that there are too many people. Some even tried to compute a number for what the population should be... I'm glad that shit went away, thanks Elon. Would hate to start killing off old people and stupid people and whomever else gets judged as non-essential persons. If such a thing existed than you too will be judged non-essential at some point.

Fuck school lunches I want this. I hate flying

Does it restore the vast tracks of strip-mined land or purify the resulting tailing pools?

Gun control. Paramilitary police forces. Drones. Thermal. Organizations that watch and track everybody and flag certain individuals. Chances of a revolution in the United States is pretty slim to none. All those AR-15s and shit are just popguns when armored police come through your walls. Or a national guard tank. Yea there are a lot of capable modern weapons but who has them? People are joking about T-55's but it is still a tank and if your squad doesn't have an anti-tank weapon then you still are at a disadvantage. There is a country recently that had about 2 million students protest. Just a protest. Almost all of them have disappeared. So those who think they are going to start a revolution in today's information age, you will be squashed before you are big enough to make an impact. In almost any country.

"AI will direct a vast portion of the population into a sort of conveyor belt humans, same ideas, same words, same goals, and so on."

Pretty much where we already are as a society

What do you think is cheaper, refining mud full of random shit to lithium or refining a battery made of 4-5 high quality materials including high amounts of lithium?

No one is saying that AI will be attached to nukes. Stop making up irrelevant points to appear credible.

The mass public deployment and rapid advancement of AI at a pace that we’re not prepared for or at a level of disruption that we don’t fully understand is the issue. It’s not fear mongering to demand that we do everything possible to guarantee safety and prosperity of this and future generations. And so far there is little to no action from the government. The open letter is just that.. a letter. This is a time-sensitive problem that we may not have a chance to fix if we fuck up now.

Yeah, for whatever reason, they've chosen the deserts of Utah to grow Alfalfa, a grass-style feedstock that needs an upsetting amount of water.

That's what I'm worried about. It will remove all opportunity

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As these tools make themselves more present in the everyday life of people we will see a rise in a sort of intellectual atrophy. AI would do the thinking for most people, AI will take the decision for most people, AI will direct a vast portion of the population into a sort of conveyor belt humans, same ideas, same words, same goals, and so on.

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this wildly overestimates how much "thinking" the average person does today. Most people, yourself included, are so on autopilot we barely take in any new information. This is not a concern. Why would people lose their curiosity anymore so than they already have?

>A carbon credit is a tradable certificate or permit representing the right to emit a set amount of carbon dioxide or the equivalent amount of a different greenhouse gas.

Please edit the Wikipedia page to reflect that it has nothing to do with air and isn't a form of added value. It's clearly wrong because you know so much.

Good, now do it for Nickel and Cobolt which is actually needed for NCA (Nickel Cobolt Alumium) li ion batteries that are used in cars. Lithium is relatively abundant, I hear the real bottle neck to electrical car production is the two more rare resources of Nickel and Cobolt.

You'll never get official access to that one.

The following submission statement was provided by /u/GodAndGaming123:

AI has been going crazy and pushing basically every industry in existence. It's like all I see on Twitter. The stock market is a personal interest of mine and most openly available AI solutions actively block off the ability for financial advice. What do you think the future looks like with AI ramping up? Will the markets have any room for human interaction?

Please reply to OP's comment here: https://old.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/127smx0/ai_investing_future_how_artificial_intelligence/jeflhmc/

AI will NOT make investing more profitable. Ultimately, it will make "alpha" nearly impossible to find.

Remember how you used to be able to pick stocks and outperform the market? Once everyone adopts the same strategies, alpha disappears.

Even bloomberg is switching from monetising terminal to monetising API calls... The future is already here...

Pet peeve:

A "Security" camera is a camera that secures something. EG: A camera is on one side of a locked door and someone monitoring the camera authorizes the door to be unlocked.

A" "Surveillance" camera is a camera that does nothing to secure something and simply records/views. EG: It provides a record who goes through an unlocked door.

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It does not work more efficiently though - it offers higher end of output range but it has pretty bad efficiency cycle overall, specifically bad on low input (outside) temperatures.

No idea why everyone is so excited about those, given most building would benefit more from actually getting more thermo work done and not just changing the energy source in the first place for something that is not particularly efficient in the first place...

lol okay sorry you feel that way

yes, even in a world where every possible need is met by technology, you still need people to direct that power. You still need city planning, fashion design, product development, landscape design, etc. not to mention long term goals like expansion into space. This requires people to make educated decisions, and directing that labor toward desirable outcomes.

Interesting... 21,000 vs. 125,000. Thanks. (Another source to consider.)

While I don't disagree with you on AI actually controlling society, a relatively large portion of the American stock economy has been proliferated by the trading algorithm Aladdin since 1997. "[Aladdin] controls over half of all ETFs, 17% of the bond market, and 10% of the stock market." https://innotechtoday.com/blackrock-is-the-biggest-company-youve-never-heard-of/#:~:text=Aladdin%20executes%20trades%20in%20every,10%25%20of%20the%20stock%20market.