Yeah, I think that as well. Ultimately technology progresses to a point that the 'age of ideologies' must come to an end. Just as the industrial revolution did with the absolute power of the European monarchies. Technology have always driven social change and now there is the aggravating factor of climate change as well which makes it even more of a necessity. Quantum computers, nanotechnology, breakthroughs in A.I. etc is going to lead to huge changes.
I haven't. I only know of him by way of reputation. And that stupid term he coined that makes him sound like a monumental douche. I'm guessing because he is.
I hate to say it, when you're talking about real people, but fictional character Arkham Land and his Landite disciplines also kinda fit.
The only way Landians should accelerate is off a cliff.
Not entirely in jest.
The sleazy pretender, baby tyrant defender who cannot remember how to book a shiny venue from November to December?
No, it's quite a big fraction of work that can be replaced. Over much of the world, agriculture isn't that far advanced from the 19th century. A lot of factories use brute force labour rather than automation because wages are low enough that it's cheaper than automation. Bank tellers and many other admin jobs have gone in the face of an IT revolution, and even in jobs like mine (education), IT has enabled decreased staff:student ratios, and will continue to do so.
AI won't make work unnecessary.
Yeah, but this scenario isn't too dissimilar to the Restoration after the French Revolution. Those in power will always try to restore the status quo but if this is rendered obsolete by technology then similarly changes in society will no longer obey the ancien regime. Their wider support network will crumble and they simply have no legs to stand on. I don't think anyone from the late middle ages to the Renaissance ever imagined the monarchies to be rendered irrelevant but yet it happened, thus began the age of ideologies with the industrial revolution as the most important catalyst. Similarly I think progress in automation and breakthroughs in AI will have a similar effect, if not more so. Like always in history changes begin slowly but then at a certain momentum those changes accelerate.
I wouldn't say small. The tasks automation can do moves up every decade or so. Robotics also have become essential for some of the most complicated/high risk surgeries. No one really doubts AI will ultimately move past what human intelligence can do by an astronomical margin. People can still work, but it will be pointless. But to be honest, that really wouldn't be that different for a large percentage of the workforce today. You can just make up fluff occupations.
In the next couple of decades we're talking about 50 % of current jobs will be replaced by AI. Factories, healthcare, law, trade, banking, insurance, journalists etc. Tons of areas where there's room for AIs to take over.
A) No. Healthcare is not going to be replaced by robots. Healthcare is being expanded by technology, not replaced. Factories have had automation for decades, unless you want automation inception where AI auto installs AI, that's not getting more automated. Law, trade, and banking are things that have careers specifically to have legal accountability for something. AI isn't going to replace accountability. Insurance, sure. Journalists... lol, sure, we can fire those people I don't mind.
Trump forever. He's one of the most litigous people on the planet. There isn't a contract he's signed he won't have considered can be "renegotiated" afterwards through a court case. Don't want to repay your loans, or pay your workers? Force them to get their money back through the courts!
Biggest miracle is that people continued to want to do business with him. Though without loans from Deutsche Bank eh..''douche bank''(the only bank that would still loan him money) he would have gone bankrupt. To his credit Trump can be suprisingly candid, he didn't understand how a bank can be so stupid. xD Ultimately foreign investors, Russians etc were just buying into the brand. If this isn't showmanship I don't know what is.
I'm just going to point out that algorithmic trading has been a thing for over 2 decades and about 80% are done by these algorithms now.
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But AI can be owned, and who can own can be liable. That's part of the discussions of self-driving vehicles: who is liable if the car crashes? The driver (general liability)? The vehicle manufacturer (products liability)? The Programmer (also products liability)? The municipality (if the road conditions led to the crash)?
I don't mean to suggest there's no accountability. What I mean to suggest is that people will be paid to be accountable. There are absolutely careers being the human in charge of automated systems to answer that question of accountability.
