Your whining is just an echo of the previous generation when they panicked about the technological boom that displaced their lazy asses. Don't be a boomer. Technology always evolves, and those who evolve with it will survive because they will be exponentially more efficient than those who hold themselves back.
AI is automating our information processing skills, just as the calculator automated our arithmetic skills. Like any powerful tool, it needs to be mastered so that it doesn't become your master.
Want some positive examples? If AI is the brain and robotics are the muscles, it can drive for you, it can monitor your property and assets for you, it can analyze your behavior and coach you to change it (according to your goals), it can cook for you, it can farm your food, it can now write basic programs for you, it can design mechanical structures for you. What would you do if you were some rich ass hat that hired servants to do all these things for you? What would you do with your time?
Your fear isn't that AI is taking over these jobs that you mistakenly thought would be forever human jobs, your fear is that you don't know what to do with yourself with the extra time you'll have.
There must be a disconnect here because I never mentioned jobs or anything like that pertaining to AI. I don't have fear so much as apprehension, and that apprehension is about things far more existential.
Not worried about losing my job to AI. I have skills AI won't replace in my lifetime.
My response was to octoclops
Ah.. fair enough.
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