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I think we’ll probably always be better at finding things amusing, even if we’re not better at finding amusing things. They’ll know when a joke is amusing to humans, but I think what makes a joke is the movement from “not getting it or thinking it’s going one way” to suddenly, after the punch line, “getting it” and laughing. I get the feeling that AI will always either predict the punchline or not get the joke at all.

Probably. Just like any system there are limits imposed on it by the nature of what it is. Some kinds of thinking might be better on silicon than on meat. Some kinds of thinking might only be possible on silicon. The reverse might also be true.

We won't know for sure until it's here.

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AI will beat humans at anything that can be done virtually where there is sufficient training data or sensory feedback. Designing complex systems, programming software, predicting weather, and medical diagnostics. It will be some time before AI can complete with humans in the physical world. That requires advanced AI plus very advanced robotics. In the short term those tasks will have humans supported by AI. Example: AI may be able to support a surgeon using a robot to preform surgical procedures with greater accuracy.

I'm not remotely convinced that AI will surpass humans in any of those areas in the first place

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True AI, probably not. At first, our bodies and processors (brains) will be far more energy efficient. However, who knows where technology will go on that front.

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Elon didn't come up with anything....the Hyperloop has been around for decades and there's reasons why it hasn't been put into fruition. Elon's hyperloop ramblings were just another way to dissuade actual high speed rail in California, because what does Elon sell? Cars.

It's criminal that North America has almost no high speed rail, look at what Spain accomplished in building out there high speed rail since 2005.

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Read this.

Focusing on the bad news and meaningless distractions is nothing new and not unique to social media. For example, these same concerns appeared when televisions were first becoming popular.

But you're right that it is hard to get people to see positive change. A lot of it is slow and steady and doesn't make breaking news or popular social media posts. In my experience, it helps to get people to take a longer view of the future. A lot of people who feel like the world is going downhill fast would still agree that we're generally better off than we were 100 years ago. Remind people of the compounding effects of small changes. Conversely, a lot of things that seem earth-shattering might not be that important in a few weeks or months.

Hopefully AI helps us in these specific areas. I see no reason why we won't be able to extend significantly beyond the relatively small targets that we seem to keep setting.

It would be truly remarkable if we could make biocomputers powered by human brain cells. The potential applications of this technology are vast, but what will be the source of the human brain cells used in creating the organoids?

How do I overclock this computer?

For the machine god!

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/hyperloop-latest-innovation-pretty-much-series-of-tubes-180955735/#:~:text=The%20hyperloop%20was%20originally%20proposed,startups%E2%80%94seized%20on%20the%20idea.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperloop

> The Hyperloop, in the initial form proposed by Musk, differs from vactrains by relying on residual air pressure inside the tube to provide lift by aerofoils and propulsion by fans.

Earlier tube systems used pneumatics and had speeds closer to 60mph.

Well put sir! It's all about clicks and distraction.

You might dislike the man, but a lot of his technology and ideas are changing the world.

Burying your head in the sand and denying the technology and ideas is no different than being a flat Earther.

O shit, here we go.....

I work for a fortune 500 and I can tell you AI is hidden all around you performing cost cutting automation. We helped other corporations eliminate 50-90% of Accounting, Data Entry, Call Centers, and other repetitive manual labor tasks with 40% cost savings. Outsourcing was only a stopping gap in cost savings to be eliminated by AI and automation.

This decade there is a focus to start optimizing repetitive and mass cheap labor. Example: Why eliminate 10 engineers, when it is 1000% easier to eliminate 10,000 data entry specialist.