Due to AI: Now is the best time to be alive? But not 10 years from now?

[GammaGlobulin]

8 hours ago, save the frogs said:

 

Elon is saying we will have our own R2D2 / C3P0 personal robot buddies.

 

It's almost like a hybrid between a pet and a real human next to you.

 

Not sure when it will happen, but that should be super freaky cool. 

 

 

 

As you say, since it is half pet...

I won't allow it in the house.

It can charge overnight in the garage.

 

I have not much use for a robot, except maybe to assemble widgets or something.

 

Anyway, it's better to have one's very own human slave.

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I like AI, as it is, or maybe about twice as smart and capable as it now is.

AI is very useful for many things, either residing on the phone or on the desktop.

 

[StreetCowboy]

20 hours ago, GammaGlobulin said:

Dear Folks,

 

Do you agree with both statements/questions in the headline of this Topic?

 

Do you disagree?

 

This is not a Yes/No questionnaire.

 

These are Essay Questions.

 

Therefore, get out your Blue Books, and please reply with your thoughts.

 

This is not a pass/fail exercise, obviously.

 

Rather, this is one of those very deep philosophical Topics.

 

Please do your best.

 

You will be judged by your writing, and your creativity, as is always the case, around here.

 

Try your best, even if you might not, at first, think you are up to the task of thinking.

 

Thank you.

 

Best regards,

As always….

Gamma

I've never really tried living in the future, and living in the past is inevitably depressing, since the bits that I choose to live in were better than the present.  Maybe I should spend more time remembering the miner's strike, the three-day week, waking up in traction...

I reckon living in the present is the best, and the more that we can do it, the better we'll be. 

[ChrisKC]

AI is not a problem!!

 

The real problems are the same as they have ever been and will continue to be:

 

HUMANS!

[unblocktheplanet]

20 hours ago, save the frogs said:

What is your P(Doom)? (probability of doom) ... Everyone needs to come up with a number.

 

 

 

 

 

9/10

[GammaGlobulin]

1 hour ago, StreetCowboy said:

I've never really tried living in the future, and living in the past is inevitably depressing, since the bits that I choose to live in were better than the present.  Maybe I should spend more time remembering the miner's strike, the three-day week, waking up in traction...

I reckon living in the present is the best, and the more that we can do it, the better we'll be. 

 

From the headline, one can surmise that I believe AI makes life far better, while we are living in the present presently.

However, as well, I believe that, within the next five to 10 years, the disadvantages of the creation of AI will far outweigh today's advantages.

So I agree with you that it is far better to live in the present presently, rather than to live in the present five to ten years from now.

This makes much sense to me, just judging from what I think I see and that which has been trending in AI progress.