Economic Upheaval Coming With Artificial Intelligence

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AM64 said:
To me the question boils down to one very simple point. If machines can do everything, then why would they need us? What's the basis for human existence, what's the basis for human skill or knowledge, for compensation? Do we get warehoused until some bright boy robot decides there's no reason?

Think about a war fought by drones, and the question is "why"? There's no personal stake, no personal risk, it's basic insanity. Who loses? The first team who runs out of toys? That's been a thought that I haven't been able to answer since the first articles published about AI drones on the battlefield and in the air. If there's no personal risk, then what's to prevent perpetual war? Why not just press the nuke button now and get it over with? If you think about AI as being logical and deciding there's no reason for war, then what if the particular brand of AI evolves into one that believes in conquest/domination?

Imagine a tennis match played by robots ... why ... de dunk de dunk ad infinitum? Has man really gotten so smart that he's become terminally stupid and planning his own obsolescence and demise? This has been covered in detail in science fiction, and yet here we are. Who needs musicians ... they are flawed, just get HAL, and sure as hell don't forget the applause.

This isn't a question of can it be done; this is a question of why in the hell would we do it. If mankind's crowning achievement is making himself obsolete, then why did we work so hard to "evolve", to become more "learned", more "competent"?
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Efficient, productive; creating artificial entities to accomplish this and more learned and more competent seems to be our means to an end.
 
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UT_Dutchman said:
Efficient, productive; creating artificial entities to accomplish this and more learned and more competent seems to be our means to an end.
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SamRebel35 said:
I feel like we're about to be living an Isaac Asimov novel.
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I liked somebody's comment to the article about the AI drone going rogue.

Does anyone else get the feeling we are ******* around and will find out eventually?
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It's always seemed to be that we keep looking at things backwards. Instead of finding less for man to do; we should be figuring out how to keep mankind productive.
 
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AM64 said:
I liked somebody's comment to the article about the AI drone going rogue.



It's always seemed to be that we keep looking at things backwards. Instead of finding less for man to do; we should be figuring out how to keep mankind productive.
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Don't worry, I am sure the robots will figure out some way we can serve them.
 
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AM64 said:
To me the question boils down to one very simple point. If machines can do everything, then why would they need us? What's the basis for human existence, what's the basis for human skill or knowledge, for compensation? Do we get warehoused until some bright boy robot decides there's no reason?

Think about a war fought by drones, and the question is "why"? There's no personal stake, no personal risk, it's basic insanity. Who loses? The first team who runs out of toys? That's been a thought that I haven't been able to answer since the first articles published about AI drones on the battlefield and in the air. If there's no personal risk, then what's to prevent perpetual war? Why not just press the nuke button now and get it over with? If you think about AI as being logical and deciding there's no reason for war, then what if the particular brand of AI evolves into one that believes in conquest/domination?

Imagine a tennis match played by robots ... why ... de dunk de dunk ad infinitum? Has man really gotten so smart that he's become terminally stupid and planning his own obsolescence and demise? This has been covered in detail in science fiction, and yet here we are. Who needs musicians ... they are flawed, just get HAL, and sure as hell don't forget the applause.

This isn't a question of can it be done; this is a question of why in the hell would we do it. If mankind's crowning achievement is making himself obsolete, then why did we work so hard to "evolve", to become more "learned", more "competent"?
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But if we scorch the sky they will grab us and use us for batteries.
 
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SpaceCoastVol said:
It all started with facial recognition. Anybody else been thru customs and immigration lately in a major airport?
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I'm not really keeping up with a lot of the new AI technology that's coming out but it has the potential to be a really scary thing if it's not reigned in.
 
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Lawsuit: Cigna Healthcare Misused AI to Deny Legitimate Insurance Claims

Cigna Healthcare, a major player in the health insurance industry, is now at the center of a federal class action lawsuit over claims that the company has been using AI algorithms to improperly deny customer claims. The lawsuit claims that Cigna’s system denied about 300,000 pre-approved claims, spending an average of 1.2 seconds to deny each claim.

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