Comment by metalliqaz
2 days ago
What good is intelligence if there is nobody with the money to pay for it? We run our brains on a few thousand calories a day. Who is going to pay to provide the billions of calories it takes to run/cool GPUs all day long if there are no humans with marketable skills?
“No marketable skills” seems pretty unlikely if you look beyond office work.
Genuine question--I've seen this thrown around a lot. Do you count yourself in this hypothetical situation where society returns to physical labor, or do you think you're immune from being automated?
Since there are excellent educational resources available online, I've sometimes wondered what it is that teachers do that couldn't be done by computer software. But it seems clear that they're somehow necessary? In theory, a bright kid with access to the Internet should be able to teach themselves, but most kids won't learn much that way.
We're going to see more jobs automated, and lots of jobs will change, but I think lots of jobs will still be around for similar reasons. Even if it's not what we'd normally consider physical labor, there's something about in-person interaction that's not easy to automate.
Independent, self-sufficient adults who could and want to get by with just machine interaction are a minority.
AIs will pay other AIs through various means of exchange
Assuming AI need humans in that way is like being a tribe of monkeys and saying
“What good is being human if they don’t have bananas to pay? Monkey only need banana, humans need clothes, houses, cars, gas, who is going to pay the humans bananas if monkeys have all the banana?”