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fool_on_a_hill t1_je7ff8o wrote

is it gonna swing a hammer? are we all just gonna keep pretending there isn't a nationwide skilled labor shortage? There's plenty of work to go around. Everyone just thinks they're too good for it. If you try to tell me they'll have robots doing that soon enough then I don't think you understand AI, robots, or construction.

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alexiuss t1_je7faw7 wrote

Here's how I see it:

Software is moving insanely fast vs hardware.

Machine intelligence (once it surpasses intelligence of people) will develop tons of ideas, but it will take it a long-ass time to penetrate into the physical world from digital world

Robots will take resources and time to build. Robot arms aren't cheap while having an LLM on your pc costs almost nothing.

In Canada it takes 5 months to build a bridge for example and a factory building took 10 years to build because of how insanely ineffective and slow goverment is at granting building permits for such things. If goverment takes an anti-robot stance denying building robots here, the factories wont ever be built in Canada and robots will take ages to be manufactured at and be exported from china, etc. The goverment can straight up deny imports or tax them insanely high too if they want to be dicks, which is very possible. It's how they destroyed the Arrow and keep screwing up the local industry keeping internet prices ridiculously high so that two corporations can keep their vile monopoly over the internet.

While building robots can be easily stopped, tons of other things cannot be stopped by goverment.

Business ideas generated by superintelligent LLMS will start new companies that will hire people to execute them into reality.

We will have to build things designed by machines, that's tons and tons of jobs for everyone until enough robots are made to replace all physical labor preformed by billions of people now.

Billions of robots aren't going to magically poof into existence unlike software which can replicate, spread and upgrade very rapidly. It's impossible for goverment and corporations to stop open source software from spreading, unlike hardware which they can delay or destroy in tons of sneaky ways.

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SkyeandJett t1_je7etpj wrote

That's an odd take. Why would our continued existence or even support need to benefit the AI? That's doomer shit. It was literally created to serve our needs and in the case of a truly sci-fi version of an ASI that's a universal god-like intelligence our maintenance would require such an infinitesimal part of its attention that it would likely do so just out of care for its creators.

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BrBronco t1_je7dwg1 wrote

Why everyone assumes that AI will be the first perfect software that won't ever malfunction? It's like getting together to see if we can build a supernova in a lab.

A complex AI capable of running human society would be a being completely beyond our comprehension already that we would definitely not know or be able to control.

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BrBronco t1_je7d3uu wrote

An AI orders of magnitude more intelligent than us would likely not care about us not ask our permission if it concluded it should be our benevolent rulers.

I think it says a lot about us that we assume that a super intelligent being would care so much about us.

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