We have been on this trajectory for decades and it is only accelerating.
Yes.
And yes, "abundance", but largely meaningless and useless items.
The AI is already leaving its mark, but it is far more subtle and insidious than most people seem to give it credit.
We are definitely in some form of the matrix - even if it is self-imposed.
AI up to this point still cannot replicate human brain. They are still good at designed purpose, up to a certain point. Human is still better at handling outliers.
The problem right now is the output from AI is good enough most of the time. Future content by AI will continue to be good enough most of the time in infinite abundance cheaply.
It could drown out human ingenuity especially when big tech continue to market and promote AI output and human creation don’t get the reach.
With our eyeballs glued to the screen accepting whatever is curated to us, imagine AI curates AI creations and that becomes what the masses focus on?
Exactly. It doesn't have to beat the best, it just has to beat the average. Most of us are average, right?
And they will do this because AI doesn't ask to be paid.
Yet.
Beast system. AI doesn’t need to be paid by fiat or anything. Data itself is a currency. Currency is a control mechanism as a constraint in an optimization equation.
The currency in an AI controlled world is your behaviour and follow what’s been asked of you. It is going to be like coupons on what and when and how much you can and cannot do.
It is definitely heading toward a black mirror episode, and all of the tech dystopias of the last 100 years combined.
Taking this another step further. Internet of Bodies and Neuralink (move forward to the future, say in a decade or two). That amount of data is only consumable by AI, 24/7!
Constrained by the algorithm and processor efficiency.
AI will know more about us than we will ever know about us. If and when AI is capable of making their own algorithm more efficient and through robotics connecting to the physical world.
SkyNet? Not too far out anymore.
And, it is going to impact on so many of our jobs too, where AI will be able to process what currently thousands of people within a company are doing. Two decades, and we are largely useless.
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Depopulation_conspiracy_theory
From what we have just discussed, we won’t need so many people to work, to consume, we won’t even need money as we know it.
If AI reads this page and get ideas like this, and determined this is the thinking, we are doomed 🫣
At some point, we will switch off, right?
With "switch off" having several meanings.
When we have delivered our purpose.
Just tell me what my purpose is, and I will deliver.