Will AI wipe out humanity?

I know Al, he's a big guy, ex-SAS type (so he says, scaled the Iranian embassy apparently) could probably take on half the pub but the whole of humanity? Doubt it.
 
Humanity is contributing to its own demise. Just think, how clever are we today? People are no longer learning how things work and how to do things because they don't need to, all they have to do is "google it" and lo and behold the solution appears.

I've said for years now that one day, and how soon that day comes no one knows, somebody, or something somewhere will flick a switch and zap, the internet is totally disconnected, disabled, no more..... how on earth will we survive? could we survive, just think about it.... No transport, no infrastructure, no deliveries, no fuel no anything, I do think that one day this will happen, don't know how or where or when but we are heading that way IMO....

Then again I have been wrong before... lol.
 
A really positive use for AI would be producing a syopsys of each thread in off topic and posting it at the top of page 1 so I know wether to read it or not. It could add updated info on on-going handbags, number of celeb posters active etc so I can make an informed decision.

Edit: A pun warning would also be welcome.
 
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I’m more concerned that @psychedelic blue seems to have deleted his account? :-(
 
A really positive use for AI would be producing a syopsys of each thread in off topic and posting it at the top of page 1 so I know wether to read it or not. It could add updated info on on-going handbags, number of celeb posters active etc so I can make an informed decision.

Edit: A pun warning would also be welcome.

Don't let AI anywhere near the matchday thread....it would probably summarise that we all need wiping out due to elevated levels of doom and gloom
 
Been watching Netflix Life On Our Planet and that tells me the earth will eventually kill all human life of..

Brilliant serious too..
 
Sorry, yeah, casual, not blue. He’s a very good poster. Just hope he’s going through a username change and not left. He’s had a couple over the years.
He’s had more than a couple and he’s a fucking brilliant poster and his knowledge of City’s history, Gary James apart, is second to none.
 
I see Musk says it will be the end of work. Further proof of his lunacy.
 
He’s had more than a couple and he’s a fucking brilliant poster and his knowledge of City’s history, Gary James apart, is second to none.
Yeah, I’m sure he was Caveman when I first joined up. Shame if we’ve lost him and been left with some of the utter fuckwits who’ve joined recently. (They know who they are..)
 
I see Musk says it will be the end of work. Further proof of his lunacy.
He's not wrong. Once AI is developed enough to both be trusted to interface with real world equipment and to also iterate on itself we'll eventually reach a point where a human will serve no purpose in any avenue of industry. Ultimately it makes currency irrelevant as there is no way to earn the currency and there is nobody needing paying with it.

In my employment we're already looking at multiple AI models interacting with each other in different capacities to design, code, QA and deploy code solutions, we even have AI "experts" in security and ethics that input into the designs. It's not quite there, but with the models we're using it can already do the work of a junior dev team with fairly minimal human oversight. It's not hard to extrapolate from this to see models that iteratively develop ever more advanced versions of other models, or even themselves.

It's a long road to get to the point where we don't need any human input in all industries though, and an extremely painful one. As the number of roles for people becomes fewer the competition for roles will only grow. How do we transition from a world where everyone who wants a role can get one to one where nobody needs a role? I can see conflicts when we hit the point where money is still needed but there aren't enough roles to go around.

Universal Basic Income and reduced working weeks are starting points, but eventually we hit the point where the people with ambitions beyond the lifestyle they can maintain with what is an effective minimum wage outweigh the number of roles for them to take up. Will they just accept that? Will the rich accept a world where their advantages in life are removed and everyone has the same lifestyle?

Ultimately, I think my question is will AI wipe out humanity or will humanity wipe out humanity because of AI?
 
He's not wrong. Once AI is developed enough to both be trusted to interface with real world equipment and to also iterate on itself we'll eventually reach a point where a human will serve no purpose in any avenue of industry. Ultimately it makes currency irrelevant as there is no way to earn the currency and there is nobody needing paying with it.

In my employment we're already looking at multiple AI models interacting with each other in different capacities to design, code, QA and deploy code solutions, we even have AI "experts" in security and ethics that input into the designs. It's not quite there, but with the models we're using it can already do the work of a junior dev team with fairly minimal human oversight. It's not hard to extrapolate from this to see models that iteratively develop ever more advanced versions of other models, or even themselves.

It's a long road to get to the point where we don't need any human input in all industries though, and an extremely painful one. As the number of roles for people becomes fewer the competition for roles will only grow. How do we transition from a world where everyone who wants a role can get one to one where nobody needs a role? I can see conflicts when we hit the point where money is still needed but there aren't enough roles to go around.

Universal Basic Income and reduced working weeks are starting points, but eventually we hit the point where the people with ambitions beyond the lifestyle they can maintain with what is an effective minimum wage outweigh the number of roles for them to take up. Will they just accept that? Will the rich accept a world where their advantages in life are removed and everyone has the same lifestyle?

Ultimately, I think my question is will AI wipe out humanity or will humanity wipe out humanity because of AI?
It’s an interesting one that’s for sure, and I accept much of what you’re saying, but there have to be limits.

My job, and my success within it, is principally founded upon the relationships I have with the people I provide a service to. I’m busier than (or at the very least I’m as busy as) any of my cohort, not necessarily because I’m better than them at technical aspects of the job, but because of my people skills and ability to interact with, and gain the trust of, people across a wide spectrum of social class and background. This gives me a huge advantage over most of them, and a significant one over all.

Never say never, but I’m struggling to see how a machine is ever going to challenge that. I don’t doubt in a few years a machine will have a far greater knowledge and understanding of the field I operate in, and be able to come up with the correct answer more efficiently and correctly than me, but to some extent my response to that is “so what?”

There will be some jobs that a machine will not be better at. Maybe a minority, but a significant one would be my best guess.
 
It’s an interesting one that’s for sure, and I accept much of what you’re saying, but there have to be limits.

My job, and my success within it, is principally founded upon the relationships I have with the people I provide a service to. I’m busier than (or at the very least I’m as busy as) any of my cohort, not necessarily because I’m better than them at technical aspects of the job, but because of my people skills and ability to interact with, and gain the trust of, people across a wide spectrum of social class and background. This gives me a huge advantage over most of them, and a significant one over all.

Never say never, but I’m struggling to see how a machine is ever going to challenge that. I don’t doubt in a few years a machine will have a far greater knowledge and understanding of the field I operate in, and be able to come up with the correct answer more efficiently and correctly than me, but to some extent my response to that is “so what?”

There will be some jobs that a machine will not be better at. Maybe a minority, but a significant one would be my best guess.
You've convinced us your job is safe ;)
 
It’s an interesting one that’s for sure, and I accept much of what you’re saying, but there have to be limits.

My job, and my success within it, is principally founded upon the relationships I have with the people I provide a service to. I’m busier than (or at the very least I’m as busy as) any of my cohort, not necessarily because I’m better than them at technical aspects of the job, but because of my people skills and ability to interact with, and gain the trust of, people across a wide spectrum of social class and background. This gives me a huge advantage over most of them, and a significant one over all.

Never say never, but I’m struggling to see how a machine is ever going to challenge that. I don’t doubt in a few years a machine will have a far greater knowledge and understanding of the field I operate in, and be able to come up with the correct answer more efficiently and correctly than me, but to some extent my response to that is “so what?”

There will be some jobs that a machine will not be better at. Maybe a minority, but a significant one would be my best guess.
I never realised you were a high class male escort. In that case I too will be impressed if they make a machine that can understand women.
 

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