Will AI wipe out humanity?

If AI is set to eliminate work as we know it, then the sheer numbers of automatons, robots, machines, computers etc needed would present an exponential leap in demand for electricity.

I often watched Sci-Fi films of future tech and wondered who paid the leccy bill?

I was under the impression that we are very close to the time when the UK's demand for electricity exceeds the generating capability. What happens when we've got robocops patrolling the streets and androids cleaning the public bogs or flipping burgers? That's a huge need for power generation far bigger than we currently provide.

AI had better start working on that existential conundrum now if it wants any future.
 
Irwell said:
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?
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You need to show that there will be no jobs at all. No AI Experts in security and ethics, for example. You also fail to address the idea that people like working. One third of the world is malnourished or worse. How long before AI wipes that out? Even if AI does the planting and harvesting, someone has to design the machines for that. AI won’t do that without input at some stage, learning in a vacuum is not possible. Do you really think AI will replace creative work successfully? Tell that to Hockney or John Mayall (90 this month.)
All these ideas about machines taking over have been around since the 18th century and have always been proved nonsense. The nature of work will change, but like death and taxes it will always be with us.
PS Presumably you will not be posting here but leave it to AI to post rag insults!
 
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When will we see robots walking about amongst us..like cp3O
 
Any chance of having an AI candidate standing in every constituency at the next general election whose sole platform is to raise the lot of the entire population? Mind, if there were 650 AI candidates sitting on the green benches would that soon morph into a dictatorship?
 
Dave Ewing's Back 'eader said:
Any chance of having an AI candidate standing in every constituency at the next general election whose sole platform is to raise the lot of the entire population? Mind, if there were 650 AI candidates sitting on the green benches would that soon morph into a dictatorship?
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AI may take decisions out of our hands and improve things generally.
 
Went down a rabbit hole today, we are going to be truely fucked over the next few years.
After that god knows what happens.
 
It won't happen soon but essentially the answer is yes, unless we become a multi planetary species before then and even possibly so
 
Damocles said:
It won't happen soon but essentially the answer is yes, unless we become a multi planetary species before then and even possibly so
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It will be robots or genetic engineered humans who will be able to go into space for years because this human body is not made for space!
 
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