Are we really scared of the capabilities of AI?

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Why do you fear it, or not?

CupcakeTheDestroyer · Accepted Answer

It’s not that people are scared of AI, they’re scared of what powerful people will do with it. It’s been suggested multiple times that AI can replace a modern work force en masse, it’s why the SAG-AFTRA strike has been going on as long as it has — AI being used to change the way their lips move to better match language dubbing, the actors don’t want countries putting words in their mouth if they decide to rewrite a film to better fit government propaganda. Not to mention the AI being used to scan entire faces to use as extra background actors in CGI. Then you have AI being used to write scripts and movies, none of it is very good on its own, and relies entirely on past human work, which just tells us that these powerful people would gladly get rid of their entire workforce if it gave them a large enough profit. I would love to live in a world where AI machinery replaced the modern workforce for all necessary or dangerous lines of work, but that also has to be a world where money doesn’t matter and right now money is the whole reason this conversation is even happening. Money is still necessary for survival, so competing with something that does your job for free is something you know you’re going to lose to when you’re facing greedy corporate CEOs and upper class that would gladly sell  your  soul to the devil in place of their own for as much profit as possible. No one genuinely thinks AI will kill us, but the people using it for their personal benefit would love to see all their competition die.

Siri137 · Accepted Answer

What exactly  are  their capabilities? Does anyone really know? Most of what I hear about the subject is clearly nothing more than fear-mongering hype, misinformation that is designed to get people interested in, and talking about, the topic. I've played around with the AI chatbots (ex. 'Bard', developed by 'Google') and I have to say I wasn't at all impressed by them. They're lame, predictable, and at no point in time did I ever get the impression that I was conversing with anything that could be called intelligent. I think people just need to stop focusing on this non-issue, and instead try to deal with, and anticipate,  real  problems we face (ex. corrupt and incompetent politicians, environmental degradation, potential economic collapse).

exitseven · Accepted Answer

A little bit. I am close to retirement so i am not worried it will do my job for me but I worry about the future. The internet has been a game changer and a lot of jobs are obsolete because of it. There are no travel agents anymore because you can get airline tickets on line.
AI will do away with writers, lawyers, radiologists, and many other high level careers.

Orion84 · Accepted Answer

I'm not afraid of AI, no.

I'm concerned about humans being the ones programming AI, though. That, and when we do have a fully sentient AI, I'm concerned about the way humans will treat it.

We're gonna fuck it up, is what I'm saying, and when AI decides the world will be a better place without the parasitic organisms called humans, we will absolutely deserve it.

jennifer_bloom · Answer

People with certain skills don’t have to worry, but people who work in others fields might need new methods to earn money. If your a phone operator at a hotel, your job is safe because human variables cannot be answered adequately with only pre automated machines that can’t process random variables, same if you return to your job as a cook / front line chef / dish cleaner etc… People who paint or draw or write or teach, might be forced into smaller consumer markets with more competition and lower net gains.

NathanDavis · Answer

nope...  I'm not into fantasy like that

AngryCarl2 · Answer

AI is going to put a lot of people out of work, which is going to be very bad for society. That's in the short term. In the long term we may find that we need AI more than AI needs us.

TheSpaceGnome · Answer

AI has already resulted in many negative outcomes.

Anonymous · Answer

I really hope they have some good prevention methods so that things don't go down like in the Terminator

QuietRunner · Answer

It looks like United States Senator Chuck Schumer is

zagor · Answer

Yes, because of the limitations of human intelligence in deciding where to implement it.

Avicenna · Answer

We should be.

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