The FUTURE and AI: heaven or hell?

[@ItWasntAPhase]

Great job with the series. I think that there is no putting the genie back in the bottle. Many governments favor the corporation over the people. In the case of the Us govt, they tend to be reactive rather than proactive. They will not pass any legislation until there is max pain. Even then if the US govt stepped in and applied regulation to protect copyright owners or workers, we already have countries like Japan that have given Ai free rein and tossed any copyright claims aside. The US cannot apply too much regulation or risk being left behind in the Ai war. This is the new world. Ai unlike many past tech will not create as many new jobs as it takes away as it simply does not have the needs of past tech. Even skilled prompt engineers won’t be needed for long. As the Ai improves it will be able to ask the any unskilled user questions to create exactly what they are thinking. This goes way beyond creativity. My cousin works for a robotics company and at this very moment they are developing an Ai welding robot. It will not require a skilled worker at all. He showed me a video and I was blown away at where they are already even in development. This means that you can’t even secure a future thinking “well they are always going to need a skilled person to weld and repair the robots”. Sorry for all the doom but the world is going to drastically change very soon and we really need the world governments to prepare

[@SimonMas]

first of all: thank you for watching. i'm glad you liked it. i 100% agree that there's no turning back now. ai will stay. I dig the rest of your analysis, too. two things, though. three. past tech didn't really create as many quality jobs either. there's a really compelling case that we look at the first industrial revolution with rose tinted glasses because we tend to ignore the stories of the poorest workers who had to relocate, because we are so far away in the future, and because we know that *eventually* "everyone" benefitted (meaning that now we can pay a fortune for a shirt made in italy, and ignore that most clothes are made in inhuman sweatshops in some "developing" country... we simply moved the ugliness of the problem away from our eyes). what makes AIs incredible is the pace of change. before... you had a lot more time to re-organise things, and change was mostly focused on one sector at the time. I wouldn't be surprised if the world will work very differently in 5 years, thanks to/ because of AIs. the future is going to be really gloomy... if we decide not to decide. there will always be a need for people who supervise, even if AIs get *REALLY* good. but how many people will be paid for that kind of job, realistically? very, very few. that's why simply staying put and telling each other "we're going to be alright" is the recipe for disaster. i can't think of a worse thing to do, right now. people should be debating this as their life depended on it... because it does. there's some discussion, but it's at such an early stage... we should step on it! final thing: i don't expect any government to do anything meaningful in this field. since i've gone socialist in the video: governments are mostly the tools of people with money (and power: the two are exchangeable these days). it's us who have to demand things. an old slogan from the 1970s said: "be reasonable: demand the impossible". that's what we have to do. there's no such thing as "no alternative", no such thing as "but we can't do that". there's money and resources that are being badly distributed and we can demand such distribution goes under scrutiny and discussion. but if we don't act on it... then nobody will.

[@ItWasntAPhase]

@@SimonMas Agree. It is bothersome to see all of the videos on YT titled “Why I’m not worried about Ai” or “Ai will never replace [insert profession]”. These videos breed complacency and cause many to bury their head in the sand. Very dangerous thinking. We need to confront the worst case scenario and start open discussions about what we can do to ensure that people are able to meet their basic essential needs in the future. Not panic or give up but face it head on.

[@SimonMas]

@@ItWasntAPhase the way i see it is: let's get ready for the worst case scenario. if it doesn't come, that's fantastic AND we will have brought a lot of positive change for everyone.

[@markus888]

4:29 "Why not use at least part of that to make sure that everyone has a good standard of living?" Because greed.

[@SimonMas]

of course. that's why we can't wait someone graciously offers us anything. besides, extreme wealth differences tend to end up badly for the rich, if not assessed through policy changes, so if the greedy ones have half a brain...

[@MaxLohMusic]

Most of us always thought that by the time AI was able to do creative work as convincingly as a human, it would've had to become smart enough for basically every other task including math, problem-solving or even curing cancer. Sadly that is not the case, but I'm optimistic it's a signal that it's getting close (which may or may not be a good thing, as there could be an increased chance of human extinction from malicious actors using the AI, kind of like if everyone had access to nukes).

[@SimonMas]

i guess one thing AI showed us is the amount of rethoric that goes into the "creative mystery". what a romantic notion, entirely crafted by creatives as a self serving tool to bash other people on the head. it's curious that AI is replacing artists, first... but it's logical, too. you can live with a horrible AI-generated tune or a really botched AI-generated portrait of an imaginary figure... but a faulty AI-generated result to a math problem might cause a bridge to collapse or a self-driving car to crash. people (and/or money) would be at stake. the kind of future you are talking about will definitely come. sooner than later, i think. but, regardless: whether such future will be great or despicable is totally up to us.

[@nilsolsen8727]

In order to make an omelette, you need to crack a few eggs- In order to reach Utopia, everything needs to change.

[@SimonMas]

hopefully without too many broken eggs.

[@Perqd]

I also have a different viewpoint on AI / Roboters in war. Imagine future wars are bots playing against bots and those playing call of duty sitting at home controlling those bots. It would be a economic war and less of an war of people. In the end a country will surrender if they are out of bots since normal human infantry will be no chance against steel without emotions. Humans are not the best thing for war, they bleed, they need sleep, they will have PTSD. Bots won't. And another point would be since the country with the better economics is most likley a more "free" country in comparsion, since capitalism (even with parts of socialism, not all socialism is bad) and democracy will always win when it comes to economics. But it could also be that we dont even need war in the future, but I thought so 10 years ago...

[@SimonMas]

i get what you're saying, but i don't think people will stop suffering because an economic war has repercussions on normal people, too.

[@Inghe]

great content, thanks

[@SimonMas]

thank you very much for watching :)

[@riccardopennetta]

Nice series, thanks!

[@SimonMas]

hey, thank you for watching :)

[@breenandre]

I think that energy and ressources will still be a problem. Apart from that, how do we demands our rights to governments or tech compagnies ?

[@breenandre]

I want also to tell you this is an Excellent video ! Keep making them, while IA cannot do the same (or are they already able to do it ?…)

[@SimonMas]

thank you for the kind words. i think this was really political, and keeping this kind of content going would completely trainwreck the channel... i do not stop from adding the odd comment when the story i tell needs it. now, about your first comment... energy is indeed *THE* biggest problems for AIs. in fact, i wonder whether we are worrying about them when climate change goes virtually unchecked. sorting AIs out only to suffer from *that* catastrophe would be really ironic. resources are a problem... until we realise how many tax heavens are out there, how much we spend on weapons, on subsidies for things that do not help anyone but the usual "friends"... perhaps if we reconsider those things, there will be more. and a bit is still better than the nothing at all that the friedmanites demand. as for who to pester with requests: the more the merrier. politicians are supposed to serve us voters, so that's a fantastic place to start. but companies also have to understand that either we change the tune of the music, or things will not be sustainable for them either. just my 2 pences, naturally.

[@justinwescott8125]

Andrew yang literally campaigned on this exact issue in 2020. He said that AI was going to completely take over the job market, so we need to have universal basic income that's paid forHe said that AI was going to completely take over the job market, so we need to have universal basic income that's paid for by taxing corporations who replace humans with AI. That way UBI could literally increase Every time a new sector of humans gets replaced. I worked with him on the campaign trail, and he saw all of this coming before LLM's were even a thing. He really Couldn't get anybody to take him seriously though. It was an extremely frustrating experience.

[@SimonMas]

yeah, i'm definitely not the first one proposing this solution. i've heard it tossed around for quite a while. to be honest, i find it chilling that most people really do think it's not going to happen to them and tough love for those who lose their job because of AIs. :(

[@zombiedearth]

Don draper has spoken lol

[@SimonMas]

i'm more like joe nobody here ;)