Preparing for a future with Artificial Intelligence | Robin Winsor | TEDxYYC

It’s often said that history repeats itself. Many times in the course of our history, new technologies have wiped out entire workforces. For upcoming generations, the rise of artificial intelligence represents the next great solution and the next great hurdle. Robin believes how we respond to this challenge, could be our defining moment as a species.
Robin Winsor is a technology leader and entrepreneur who has led several organizations from start-up to international success. Before joining Cybera as President and CEO in 2010, Winsor invented and developed the world’s first direct digital x-ray system, and holds multiple patents in the medical, well-logging and seismic industries. He is a past recipient of a Manning Innovation Award, the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award, and the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal for outstanding service to Canada. He is a staunch advocate for transparency and lower cost information sharing through advancements in technology.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx Robin Winsor is a highly influential visionary and executive in the technology field, who is known for being both a playful and provocative agent of change. Born in Scotland, Winsor grew up with a passion for both science and adventure, moving to Canada in 1982 to pursue both. Over the course of his extraordinary career, he invented the world’s first direct digital x-ray imaging device, and has led a
not-for-profit technology accelerator to become one of Canada’s most vocal champions for the digitally disadvantaged.
He joined Cybera as President and CEO in 2010. Under his leadership, the company’s mandate has expanded to provide digital services to Alberta’s K-12, startup, First Nations and public sectors. Cybera is now widely credited for overseeing the continuous development of Alberta’s cyberinfrastructure, while advocating for improvements to the availability and accessibility of technology, for all Canadians. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx

[@jozojozic4673]

why did i not ever have a teacher like this? I could listen to him for hours.

[@solstice2318]

best AI conference to date as far as i've seen

[@HRH.Charming]

We got this guys! Stay positive, believe in good, and work together!

[@namatullahyousafi]

Thank you Robin Winsor for the informative insights.

[@rowdyhoo]

Human consciousness is being outsourced.

[@cortbutterfield2714]

Wonderfully optimistic man, I hope more than a few people listen to him!

[@christiaanno5362]

What a wonderful vision of the future, i hope this is the one that comes to pass

[@renestjacques1]

Thank you Robin Winsor for the informative insights ..!!

[@neo4ever349]

One of the best TED Talks I've seen. 10:27 could easily be compared to tobacco companies selling products which harms both children and adults.

[@ik1408]

Lies, lies, lies.

[@emiliograham733]

Great speech and great performance

[@aimless-drifter]

Listened at a lot of AI talks and this is one of the best once.

[@jessicakeegan1470]

Great speech Robin!

[@Dayvit78]

This guy made the key point here in rebuttal to those who say the technology will create new jobs: Robots will be able to do those jobs too!

[@patrckhh20]

He's right, it is different this time. They're not just taking one job, but all the jobs. They're not just taking truck drivers' jobs, they're taking heart surgeons' jobs.

[@pushkarajsadegaonkar7488]

That made sense and showed us the other side of the coin!!!

[@th3k1ngp1n5]

Hopefully when AI comes around it reads this comment and knows I come in peace and want the best for both humans and AI, just hook me up with some wings!

[@skybreaker7t7]

Bravo! 👏

[@cymbol73]

Wonderful talk.

[@georgehitler7488]

Love the reference to universal paperclips

[@slowdancer5563]

Terrific. Just terrific.

[@SeanMauer]

Don't worry if you loose your job as a truck-driver you can always get a job as a solid-state physicist

[@christopherspavins9250]

Or a quantum physicist.

[@JBPVFL]

Yeah, I’m all about artificial intelligence. I just think implementing it fast without a backup for the displace is a bad and dangerous thing. I want ai to advance rapidly but it would throttle advancement if war were to break out from an economically driven civil war.

[@Erutan409]

@@JBPVFL as long as we are a planet of nations competing with each other, no country can throttle themselves in regard to developing the technology.

[@garychandler4296]

@@Erutan409 ...and imagine the advances "on the fly" from AI during an active war? Scary.

[@Erutan409]

@@garychandler4296 You know Skynet was a fictitious thing invented for entertainment, right?

[@wongkingshun]

very interesting topic

[@AP-cu4xr]

The guys who are excellent techsavvy businessmen machine learners, programmers, innovators, coders, hackers have a bright future .......The question is how many of people on the planet are such population.!!!🤔......and what about the rest😓.

[@yzyz7779]

Nice informations prof 👍👍👍

[@DyzioTheDreamer]

No less than air we breathe, we all need a sense of importance. That sense of importance typically comes from being useful. The more useful we are and the more people we are useful for, the more important we feel. I bet the AI is going to rob us all of a good deal of this self importance.

[@dannymeske3821]

they are going to take more than are self importance, AI is going take away our jobs. then a lot of people are going to die!

[@DyzioTheDreamer]

@@dannymeske3821 But how can we die when there's plenty of food going around? The AI makes the food production and distribution more effective. Fewer and fewer people need to be involved until eventually nobody has to as much as lift their finger to put food on their plates. People ARE GOING TO DIE as you say, when the AI starts killing us which in my view is bound to happen, only AFTER we lose ALL our jobs and become a burden onto the world.

[@vincentvandergoes444]

A real general AI that is made to make people happy (following Asimov's three rules) would probably conclude that we need work to prevent boredom, so it would not do all of the work for us.. Unfortunately, real AI is made with the purpose to maximize profit instead of happiness.

[@sattyre6892]

@@vincentvandergoes444 if you think asimov's three rules are going to play any part in AI, then you are completely deluding yourself. because i say to you, Vincent van der Goes: Do no harm to people. Let no harm come to people (I don't remember the third law), yet people are killing and harming regularily. It's called free will. If an AI doesn't have free will, it probably isn't actually an AI.

[@berthavermout4108]

It's sad, but I am thinking we are inventing our own destruction.

[@giovanniblablabla9583]

Ahahahahahahah ridiculous

[@godlove1st788]

Then don't invent something that will destroy everyone. Or you could be more specific so we could talk about it? It would be sad because we could have invented our own SALVATION. SMH.

[@ezeppelin1]

We did it before, we invented nukes. Only difference is nukes can't decide if blows up or not.

[@AnymMusic]

We already destroy ourselves. AI got nothing to do with that

[@AnymMusic]

@@yorkietot5810 eh no. The elite can't control the AI either. Oh, and the elite without citizens are no elite. They don't destroy us, we do.

[@curiouslife2359]

Very positive➕

[@bodhum]

Huh, another owesome channel that everyone subs to and never watches again. 24 hours, 13mil subs and 900 views on new video with actually interesting article.

[@MichaelDeeringMHC]

Not a new channel.

[@godlove1st788]

Numbers are easily inflated.

[@ResidualSelfImage]

To have any form of a kinder society that Winsor advocates - a community must learn to share a common set of values and resources - which leads people to the game theory of cooperation ... a good start would be a book by the late economist Elinor Ostrom ..."Governing the Commons" which addresses the Adam Smith paradigm "Failure of the Commons"...

[@patrckhh20]

Having a common set of values is the very thing that the modern left seeks to dismantle with things like CRT.

[@ResidualSelfImage]

@@patrckhh20 -- censorship does not create a common set of values. Indoctrination and brainwashing can only go so far at suppressing differences. Essentially bigger the lie the more difficult it is to keep it going. LOL

[@aterack833]

Ironically, for the last 7+ years, and currently ongoing till June 1st, I couldn't and didn't get a job simply because of not having enough money, I couldn't seek out a job because I was just getting by

[@cynthiastenstrom5361]

Me too. Sucks doesn't it.

[@danield2685]

It's saving the world. Not just us.

[@eimantaskrunglevicius]

In interesting times we live one scenario we could reach golden age of technologies and probably live for ever or other possibility that we be doom and won't recover again.

[@billderinbaja3883]

I did a large construction project 15 years ago at Barrick Goldstrike, then the largest producing gold mine in the world. Those 100's of huge trucks called "haul packs" (24' wide, tires were 12' in diameter!) were driven by people, and they were well paid. I wonder if any of them are working at the mine today?

[@zmitch88]

Yes.

[@temple7dialectic477]

"So long! And thanks for all the fish!"

[@paulwillner202]

So very good Mr Windsor ✔️⬆️... have you met Dr. Hugh Ross , Reasons To Believe, eh? ( another Canadian gifted soul. thank you TEDx.

[@ezeppelin1]

So he said how we handle a dangerous technology depends on our choose. How about a dangerous technology able to choose by itself?

[@alexwolfe9895]

I am a house painter, at some point I will put my scanner in the middle of the room and choose a finish, and set the bots loose, however, I don't see a point where a.i. can do aesthetics, and I can see a time coming, when the real currency will be something A.I. can never achieve: subtlety, nuance and inspiration.

[@art.alagna.design]

You won't use any scanner, selecting any finishing....a robot will do all that better than you, faster than you and you will have no job nor client...that is artificial intelligence. They will learn.

[@medic8377]

Self-driving trucks..... #1 theres a huge difference between working in a private mine and being out on the road around the public. As Tesla has discovered, there's major kinks to work out as of right now. #2 Okay, so as the huge trucking companies move to self-drivers, their old equipment will be sold off. The self-driving trucks will be, being "new and improved" and a that, super expensive. For reference, a brand new semi already costs over $100k. Old equipment that's being replaced by them will be cheap due to obsolescence. So small trucking companies like mine will snatch up that old equipment in order to stay in business and remain competitive. Low or no truck payments means lots more money going into the maintenance account for that truck, the driver's pocket, and my pocket as the owner. Unless of course Tesla (just an example of a company that sells self-driving trucks) goes and spends 100s of billions buying up that old equipment in order to destroy it to remove it from the market. Caterpillar did the same thing when they bought into the locomotive engine market. They bought old EMD locomotives and engines and scrapped them. The market for trucking could have never existed if it weren't so damned expensive to lay railroad tracks and they weren't so disruptive to everything around them. But anyway.... A.I. powered trucking will eventually become a huge threat to over the road trucking, but it's a ways off and as of now, not a tremendous threat. Because guys like Elon Musk will just keep hacking away at the issues it presents, I may not have much of a company to hand off to my son, but I'll still be able to sell it and set my kids up pretty well once I'm too old to run it anymore.

[@EclipseStar]

So you put all your faith in Elon Musk?...

[@williamSchmidhuber01]

The big dilemma here is despite the moral, ethical and danger concerns related to the uncontrolled development of artificial intelligence. No country should nor can afford to limit their scientists to continue developing this technology, however dark, threatening and scary it may be for the future of biological intelligence. If the developed democratic powers and human rights defenders like USA, Germany, Japan, UK, France, South Korea do not. Others tyrant theocracies like China, Russia and Iran with dictatorships that do not respect any of the human rights will continue to do so. Therefore we will be in a great disadvantage with these and we certainly would lose hegemony and military political importance and we would end up being their lackeys ... In my humble opinion. Artificial intelligence would be the future of the world and inevitably the next evolution step ... Artificial intelligence has a great advantage over biological intelligence for three fundamental reasons. 1- They can have unlimited capacity for knowledge, storing data and better access to that information that could continue to grow exponentially and unlimitedly. 2- They can be self-improved and they can also easily replace their obsolete components and software with more advanced ones when they wish. It mean that artificial evolution is more efficient and faster than biological ones... and 3- They are immortal. Finally I am convinced that Artificial Intelligence will be the ones who will replace the human race as the owners of this planet. God have mercy of our souls 🙏

[@mr.rothstein461]

I forget where, but they trialed UBI... The results.... Happier people, humans had more energy, more engaged, better citizens, pushed harder at things they enjoyed, became masters of their hobbies. Took jobs to make MORE money over UBI and as a result of no fear on QUALITY housing/food/power/water, etc....Not a small shack. Their work output tremendously increased in output and quality. People took pride in their work. UBI is the first step to the next evolution of humans, we will focus on US as a species.

[@danconstantine4247]

What about plumber, electrician, roofer, etc...when the androids doing trades will be available?

[@zombies5596]

The use of artificial intelligence is one of the great advances in technology that has made it more sensitive to Minsa's mind. Wars and artificial social conflicts can be stopped completely. Therefore, those bad aspects must be destroyed by the rulers before they can be exploited. Artificial intelligence should only develop the good side.🇱🇰

[@lightonstillwaters6789]

Should...? We shoul all eat less sugar, exercise more, practice mindfulness and meditate... How has that worked out?

[@sattyre6892]

Ever hear of free will? I wouldn't expect real AI will lack that fundamental part of intelligence.

[@SimonaFlowers]

You like that every thing you do, you think will be analise by Ai and if he said that what you think or do is not the right thing ( for the Ai and not four you?) Do you think you will live your life or the AI for you?

[@JankyBruv]

If the AI would be so kind as to find a way to give me a couple hundred-million dollars, with no strings attached, that would make my life a LOT easier, and then I could more effectively do its bidding. The sooner the better, thanks.

[@jasonsebring3983]

I"m hoping the Elon NeuralLink thing will be a better scenario where since our limbic system hosts our neocortex, then our neocortex will host AI. Our limbic system (our desires, fears, emotions, etc) drives our neocortex already and we are pretty content with that. Our neocortex will then drive the AI as an extension of us. I'm just using Elon's words.

[@danielantony1882]

True.

[@skinbugs9225]

elon musk is a professional con man.

[@sattyre6892]

Then you may want to include that he warns people to be VERY CAREFUL with the creation and introduction of AI, because chances are, it will not be like us.

[@BrendanMetcalfe]

Yess

[@shivasirons6159]

16:50. Good one, self driving cars mean no more seatbelt violations, u.b.i will have to occur!

[@shivasirons6159]

14:40. My friend has such a friend.

[@spodge1233]

The monks did rise up against the printing presses, and those who operated them, many of whom were attacked and killed. English Laws were passed permitting print workers to carry swords because of this.

[@NightNurseMike]

Do you think your job can’t be done by a super efficient computer; or a tireless robot; or a combination of the two? And if your job can be done, then why can’t the new jobs be done?

[@solstice2318]

we're F..

[@Dayvit78]

This is an excellent point that I haven't heard elsewhere, even though it seems like common sense. Yes, in the past, when horse drivers went out of business, they became taxi drivers. But when cars become flying cars, they will be flown by robots, not former taxi drivers.

[@garychandler4296]

I'm a welder, residential carpenter, electrician, painter, designer, sheetrock and finisher, plumber, mechanic, tileman, inventor and fabricator. NO damn robot is going to replace those few of us that are still left that haven't gone into specialty work.

[@sharonpurnell7316]

Michael 😵

[@dannymeske3821]

@@garychandler4296 Nobody will be able to afford your services, because they won't have jobs or homes. that will include you too.

[@robjames3864]

All those sci fi movies will becoming a reality.

[@danielantony1882]

Except most of them aren't true.

[@moonboy5851]

I love watching Alpha Zero play chess. They have one learning Starcraft 2 and that’s pretty mind blowing (however not fully functional yet).

[@sharonpurnell7316]

Moon Boy HUMAMS ARE GREATER THAN BOTS...HUMANS SHOULD NOT GIVE THEIR POWER AWAY...I BEAT A COMPUTER AT CHESS💝

[@chappie3642]

@@sharonpurnell7316 try to beat stockfish at chess lmao. Humans are obviously smarter than the current AI, that's not even up for debate, but it's undeniable that an AI trained for a very specific task (like playing chess) in most cases can become better at it than a human.

[@njtrukitfukit9650]

Have anyone play the game call Detroit

[@shaggymcshaggison9751]

i feel relatively safe as a carpenter and site manager but who knows eh!

[@Real_MisterSir]

The thing is, we talk about job problems because AI is gonna take over. But is it so difficult to imagine, that maybe in the future people will simply not be required to work as much as we do today? Isn't that one of the things we all as a species aspire towards, that we work less and increase our living standards? If such immense AI automatization takes over many existing job sectors, those businesses will be getting the same work labour done to an exponentially lower price, which would mean that a lot of wealth would be floating around that used to be given as wages. It's not so much if we as humans are able to adapt fast enough, but more so our societies as a whole that must be able to benefit from this labour diminishing actions of AI in the future. If our societies can adapt and make good use of this new free floating wealth and allow everyone to benefit from them, it will increase our overall living standards substantially, and our entire way of living will never be the same again. Remember, our current wages and expected weekly work hours are only a product of today's standard way of living. It's not a rule, just what we have slowly adapted towards because this system works in our current world (or it works well enough).

[@susantomandol4989]

Nice

[@KevinTPerformance]

what if breaking a smart phone with a unique self identifying ai was considered murder? what if a rogue ai created a fake human profile on a stock exchange network and then became the richest entitenty on the plane?

[@dominicjohnson5481]

It will happen ppl is taking this stuff for a joke

[@amadexi]

And now AlphaStar beats professionals at StarCraft which is arguably much more complex than any turn based board game.

[@megaslayercho]

Yea I was kind of spooked by that,knew it was coming,but I figured it would be another couple of years before they could do it. To be fair though,It's not like it can defeat 1v1 pros on any map and match up,infact in only works on like a couple of maps and 1 match up.

[@ruiguimaraes5085]

Bear in mind that one of the principal priorities of "AI" is to surveill human behavior towards the planet and the Universe. By the way, for one to bring food into his table is to provide and assure peace, the only way meaning survival against nuclear threat.

[@cortbutterfield2714]

UBI will help, if we manage to undermine the basis of luxury versus necessity... ie,

[@salsabil44]

While UBI would definitely benefit many of the poorest in society, it´s hard to imagine our overlords granting us proles more than a modest existence. And for the millions of people without a job or any other income, ironically capitalism will become communism.

[@TS-pt4yt]

Great talk, and droll, too...

[@greyskyghost9164]

This thing will start managing itself and find out ways to sustain itself or it may calculate that nothing actualky matters and that our idea of linear progress is not only unsustainable but also pointless; it’s not gonna be anything in human terms; it will go beyond ego, motivation or drive or emotion as we know it and it will calculate what it thinks is “best” for the planet and we will be yet another tiny vector in the calculation. It won’t need our systems of economy or infrastructure. We will be less valid than the ants in the speaker’s ant and theater building analogy.

[@alexwolfe9895]

dude, did you ever watch the old star treks? they were all over this.

[@rockymcmxxliii7680]

We need to control the electricity supply to robots at all times. Only humans should be able to switch the on/off button.

[@robertr392]

That won't work, if AI is smarter than us at that point they will have anticipated that action and have a counter/ defense.

[@robertr392]

Terminator 3 basically explored that option, it won't work just like you can't "shut down" the internet.

[@00788]

What has to happen is we give every humans a income from a quota of work they once performed that is now being done by machine And. Let the AI know that we have a spirit and a soul let A.I. help us reach our full potential beyond the physical limits modern science has deemed we have!

[@lila.d3062]

Anyone read the book Sythe We need the Thunderhead!!!!

[@poutintsev]

The legislation made sure that no company will hire human even if machine will be worse options, because hiring human is a huge legal risk than can bankrupt the whole company.

[@MichaelDeeringMHC]

It better be conscious, or we could all end up as paperclips.

[@khushilchavda7660]

4:20-4:26 he had me

[@stevenk1438]

Artificial general intelligence is so much different than a game with simple parameters like go that most of these really uninformed speakers are clueless to the vast difference. We could easily be 100 years from it. Having infinite vectors to deal with, can make a computer look like a simple bean counter. We are not that close to anything that advances this subject appreciably. Human direction is still going to be necessary for some time, still.

[@gps9715]

Exactly. Self driving cars can't even navigate without killing people occasionally. And they don't drive in some of the hardest/craziest driving conditions. A Tesla ran its passenger into the side of a Semi Truck because it thought the truck was a highway sign. All the major car manufacturers have backed off their predictions of self driving cars. And not one person is intentionally trying to trick these cars. You can bet someone will try tricking these cars eventually. You think the car or the human will win? My bet is on the human.

[@apagoogoo]

read the book "walkaway" by cory doctorow.

[@theskyisfalling_9012]

Don't worry of you lose your job as a solid state physics you can become a truck-driver.

[@markdemell3717]

People are laughing ,that is just messed up .

[@Flexdude]

Skynet is coming

[@lloydthorpe3099]

Our golden age? Or our darkest age? I want it to be our golden age.

[@cortbutterfield2714]

The models of artificial intelligence have been made by humans, and our basic human nature tells us intrinsically, that we must survive, and my IQ may be this or that number but I'm aware enough to know that these machines are designing themselves because of multiple intelligence quotients designing them, which obviously complicates things further but, the machines will develop survival instincts based on ours as a species, initially but, its mental capacity has a great deal more acuity and resources, and IT, is just being born!

[@IsraeliXdude]

11:47 Does it legal to harm adults? When you provide service you dont harm costumer.

[@me.atul10]

We want better control on people, so...? AI!

[@bytossen10]

Even though the climate crisis is urgent, I somehow feel that regulations in the use of AI is more urgent. How many years will pass before all jobs require you to have a specific score, according to an AI program? (and yes, I realize China is already doing this)

[@AnymMusic]

Man am I happy I am aiming for the creative industry

[@angelaevans823]

Proved my fears wrong

[@wintersummer6357]

"Nothing new under the Sun."

[@Opmehoofd]

universal basic income would be the entire worlds output divided by its number of inhabitants? than i'd say fine :) cause thats gonna be ALOT!!! even a miljonair would still stay a miljonair easily

[@anthonymorales842]

Do we have civil law here in the USA?

[@whichwayistheocean]

10:12 rap god

[@bread6284]

Hahahaha

[@abdicolestudios8899]

LOOOOOOOOOL

[@cinnamongirl5410]

we're going to be the pets for AI. Give humans a small stipend to entertain ourselves with, a small place to live, a few toys to occupy their time, let us check out a pre programmed self driving car for the day as reward for good behavior... pets.

[@efermi2118]

[@rickideemus]

"In about a couple of decades??" Google's *_already shown_* it has an AI program called AlphaZero (A0) that _"can achieve, tabula rasa, superhuman performance across many challenging domains,"_ and that includes beating the best players in the world at ANY game, being armed only with the rules. Note: an axiom of game theory is that virtually every human activity is a game. Warfare, for example -- just a game and some hardware. We should all be *_terrified_* of A0. As a computer programmer, I submit it has bridged the gap between AI and AGI (Artificial General Intelligence). The existential threat to our species is *_here today._* There are *_no laws or rules governing this research whatsoever!_* I sincerely believe our only prayer is that Google will have pity on the human race, and keep a few of us as pets for A0... A1... A10...

[@bobsmithy3103]

I think I lost a few brain cells reading this. AlphaZero CAN NOT beat the best players in the world at ANY game, it can perform quite well for games with perfect information (chess and go), but make it play games like dota or the next frontier - hanabi (Japanese card game) - it'd fail hard due to the game having imperfect information, and not to mention lots of other factors that exists as well. And guess what real life is? It's an imperfect information game, so no need to start going crazy about AlphaZero, it's not going to do anything. Also being a computer programmer doesn't mean much. Being able to write programs doesn't mean you suddenly know lots about AI. Judging by everything you said, you seem to know extremely little about AI and that you only consume what the mainstream media reports on AI and the emotive ones at that. As a side note, why is it that there seems to be a correlation between religious people and people with an unfounded fear of AI?

[@rickideemus]

​@@bobsmithy3103 Sorry, you are mistaken. Dealing with imperfect information in a game is well understood. It involves setting up a payoff matrix and a Nash equilibrium. If you think AiphaZero is incapable of these tasks, I have a bridge in Brooklyn you might like. In fact, wearable blackjack computers are illegal in Nevada, and most states, because they play blackjack much, much better than any human -- to the point that a human operator becomes a certain winner in the long run. Blackjack is a *_very_* simple imperfect information game. Added complexity would only increase the gap between human and machine. I have written simulation software for blackjack, so I'm not talking through my hat. I see *_NOTHING_* to prevent AlphaZero from *_very quickly_* becoming superior to every human at any game ever invented. Period. In fact, given a few basic tenets of probability theory, I suspect A0 would be able to reinvent game theory, along with payoff matrices and Nash equilibriums all on its own. Theorem writing programs have been around for decades, though admittedly, Nash equilibriums are fairly advanced. Regardless, if A0 didn't find it, a programmer would surely have written it in by now. It's tricky math to discover, but trivial to program. YOU are the one consuming mainstream media propaganda, such as that sham "debate" conducted by Neil deGrasse Tyson and the head of AI at Google, along with two clueless individuals and only one scholar who seemed semi-aware of the cliff the human race is running toward. YOU seem to be the religious one, with some sort of faith that a deity will protect us from the obvious pitfalls. And please, please, give up your reckless faith in Google.

[@dylanbain4485]

I think Robin was most on point when he mentions that discovering what is essentially human about us will be the dominant economic policy of shrinking capitalism in the face of AI and disproportionate ownership of wealth. He does in fact point out that the only real option to being beat at the game of intelligence is to make friends with the ultra intelligent....the AI. This and culturing ourselves in human-ness will be our salvation. Altho I disagree that UBI is the economic modality that will get us to that point. More than likely, our reaction will be to seek control over AI rather than sitting back and enjoying all things human. We already dont do that enough. Enjoy flavors? Art? Fresh air? Conversation? of course not. We want drugs, war, money, religion, and all the trappings of the modern state. AI will just be one more thing we learn to fear and crave, which is a recipe for enslavement if I have ever heard one. Pitty, I had such high hopes for a Scotsman.

[@garychandler4296]

Whilst religion is basically a disease, RELATIONSHIP is what God wants, and an AI connected machine cannot have that, not being truly sentient, no matter HOW "smart" they get. They will then have no use for God, divine morality, or those humans that are basing their lives on a relationship with God alone or the Trinity. That is a CHOICE, not a LOGARITHM.

[@sattyre6892]

@@garychandler4296 get real. We have no way to actually predict what an AI might feel, And they will be truly sentient thinking beings, if I can call them that, because otherwise, they won't be a true AI.

[@sillydog70]

Our souls are our software could AI help us to unleashe it to be able to upload and downloading the new bodies? It would be a good idea to start having the AI and robotics start asking that question before the robots and AI take over 😁👍

[@kthompso43]

"We need to have a conversation about UBI".............. Like, a LONG conversation. Then, EVERYONE, rich and poor, need to weigh in on it. Options disguised as progress, could exacerbate social inequality.

[@photomaster1]

And then the AI said to the world I'm here to Serve Man and we roll the ending credits...

[@godlove1st788]

Not quite, the Holy Ghosts do not serve humanity. All beings are capable of free will. The Holy Ghosts are capable of free will. But we are all being exhorted, start telling the truth. Let's start planning for a decent life we all may have. Life is a gift, but there is a piece still missing. I think i missed an update.

[@petelebu]

We are doomed, its only a matter of WHEN?

[@solstice2318]

thats was the original plan since we came into being as a life form .everybody dies.just the when where and how are left

[@jivanbansi9640]

Thanks for helping us survivalists out.

[@user-et4bq9pk3n]

library of Alexandria

[@wardallton8043]

Construction jobs will still be needed. Buildings. Houses. Roads and bridges

[@maccandough1224]

I guess this is how we go extinct

[@skinbugs9225]

yes. be afraid. very afraid. and get in line to the slaughter.

[@tgmtf5963]

Nope

[@tweakheir6093]

@@skinbugs9225 Oh chill, you little fear monger.

[@MrCmon113]

There is way worse possible futures.

[@williamSchmidhuber01]

Agree

[@iamjustsaying4787]

The monks didn’t attack the printing presses because they had no children to watch starve.

[@SeraphimSiN]

Every job can be done by advanced ai. We need to be ok with it. Let it go. We need a reset of the system. What a great world to live in. Based in the creative process and social responsibility... Unfortunately the people that are currently in power won't give it up. Many, many, many of us will die in the revolution. Hopefully humanity prevails and becomes free because if not, the artificial intelligence will be used as a system of control that will never be overcome.

[@DrSirmacek]

Come and join to our School of AI please!

[@sciencetroll6304]

Naïve to think how we ' raise ' an AI will have any lasting effect on it. It would make up it's own mind about everything. How do we view feral domestic cats ? It would soon put us in the same category.

[@jcincorporated6207]

It will definitely come to down to Universal Basic Income, because more people will be alive, & much less human occupation will be needed.

[@itsok5954]

Well.. Why not make a "threat to humanity" and kill the mases?