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[–] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

You sound like people explaining that chess is something a computer can never beat a human at because of some mystical sense we are supposed to have (it was quite some time ago). They quickly changed their tune to "chess isn't very hard anyways" when Kasparow got schwacked by Deep Blue. Back then peiple hated on automation.

We humans will never be better than our training data either, and we forget and get old and die.

I'm more interested in figuring out what we should do with all the computational power and potential labour. The robot was just an example, a metaphor, for AI doing boring work. It will be able to write sonnets and generate world class movies one day, what shall we humans do then? Be happy? Do art?

[–] Flower@sh.itjust.works 2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

figuring out what we should do with all the computational power and potential labour

The first priority should always be figuring out a way to produce very cheap and healthy food, housing and clothing for everybody.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

And automation and robotisation has done that, wildly. The problem we have is it isn't correctly distributed, not that we can't or are not doing it.

Housing is similar, we have enough housing, but it's hoarded instead of distributed.

This has nothing to do with AI.

[–] Flower@sh.itjust.works 1 points 13 hours ago (2 children)
[–] SparroHawc@piefed.world 1 points 8 hours ago

AI has some interesting and fun applications.

The problem is capitalism.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 13 hours ago

If you think so then you are unaware of many many things.