If you live in a country that has free higher education, it is likely your living under a huge tax burden filled with bureaucracy and waste. Tax accounting will be the last to automate because AI drives efficient spending. That money isn't disappearing, its being delivered into the pockets of political figures and government mangers.

Well that book is very explicitly written by a anarchist activist with the intend of making the concept relevant in modern politics again.

It is not a scientific book, and I must say I have some sympathies towards anarchy myself.

Problem is, those very primitive and unspecialized cultures weren’t advanced enough to invent writing, so most if not all of their culture is lost in time, forever.

People with a political agenda have time and time again tried to make them say thing we are mostly unsure.

I am more interested in living ethnology, especially the study on native cultures around the world.

Their societies obviously are not very specialized, individuals mostly segregated by sex, age and power.

An interesting point is their demography, if life was so great, a “saturating” fertility level should easily allow their population to double every generation.

And that was never seen.

Life witnesses, for example in very early colonial Brazil seem to point that those native cultures were far from being food limited (they had plenty of free time to increase harvest intensity), but they were waging constant extermination war with “neighboring” tribes.

In fact, land was plentiful, they had to travel extensively to meet those adversaries.

The goal was genocide of all the opposing men (and not land as said by the natives themselves), either directly or after a variable period of slavery followed by ritual torture, execution and often cannibalism. Women were taken as brides by the young winners (not much polygamy in what I read it seems).

This live experience bears much stronger witness about the quality of life in those happy times.

What saved those cultures was in fact that they were not specialized enough to create more advanced weapons…

IMO

Not when powerful AI is being fine-tuned to maximize a reward (money).

This is the whole reinforcement learning alignment problem, just with human+AI instead of AI by itself. Unaligned incentives (money vs. human well-being).

Construction management is my bet

They don’t own it, but they’re heavily invested in it. I don’t know what percentage their $10bn investment gave them but I don’t think they have control over OpenAI. I’m sure they have a very loud voice in the room though.

Plumber. No ai is going to replace a plumber. Skip finance and economics, or do the public sector finance.

Source: currently using algorithms that do economic models for finance that will eventually be ai driven.

In addition, there's also a large risk of somebody accidentally making it evil. We should probably stop training on data that has these narratives in it.

We shouldn't be surprised when we train a model on X, Y, Z and it can do Z. I'm actually surprised that so many people are surprised at ChatGPT's tendency to reproduce (negative) patterns from its own training data.

The GPTs we've created are basically split personality disorder AI because of all the voices on the Internet we've crammed into the model. If we provide it a state (prompt) that pushes it to some area of its state space, then it will evolve according to whatever pattern that state belongs to.

tl;dr: It won't take an evil human to create evil AI. All it could take is some edgy 15 year old script kid messing around with publicly-available near-AGI.

Lmfao this year is going to be fun

that attitude is not fit for the world we are increasingly finding ourselves in

Well that is the point, is abundance a cause or a consequence of a political system.

See some rich Sicilian acquaintances, I already have an idea :-)

If we can successfully clone a human, I would say that's an artificial human. Now whether or not them being artificial makes them more or less worthy of human rights is not a debate I'm here to make. (imo everything sapient and to an extent sentient should have some form of rights to protect it)

Let's see if they can even make it work, since they have to not only make the AI, but also make it never say anything against the CCP

Man people here hype things up way too much, i’ve been a futurist since the 2000s and one lesson I’ve learned time and again is tech will disappoint. LLMs will be a helpful sidekick at most, ain’t no ChatGPT gonna do replace anyone at work. AI freeze for the next decade is the most likely outcome as they hype dies down.

> AI won't be able to do your job until AGI

Current AI + 3 humans will probably replace 10 humans though

I’m a double EE dropout who became an electrician 25 years ago and I’ve never regretted it.

I'm surprised more people don't go into skilled trades even without factoring in AI. They have a nice apprentice program where they pay you to learn the skill -- a much better financial model than college.

I suppose medical school is sort of an apprentice program since they actually practice medicine. Law school is completely decoupled and should go back to being an apprentice program -- for the small subgroup of lawyers that survive the AI displacement. Trial lawyers will still be needed to physically show up and argue cases for a long time.

Idk if you know this but Microsoft basically owns OpenAI (ChatGPT / GPT3) already and has for a while

Access to the openai API is not free

Not sure why bing would give a public API access to their search AI.

Electrician is really solid. The more automation there is, the more work there is for electricians to wire it. Plus data centers will only ever increase in numbers. It takes a lot of electricians to wire a modern massive data center.

Is cloning a human AI?

Na mate, you done enough. You can sit this one out, if you like.

2x at least.

10x ???

3D printed houses started being build by property developers.

They bulk 100 homes in same development, to get cost benefit. Yet people are still needed to finish the roof, doors,windows, etc..

Ah yes because ADHD = thinking faster