Quote Originally Posted by GranthamPie View Post
Most people, who have to actually and physically work for a living and don’t, (according to brilliant minds like David Graeber) have “bull**** jobs”, won’t have to worry in the short term. The rest just have to worry about who has the metaphorical “finger on the trigger”.

RIP, mankind. You really gave it to the ants on a plate this time.
As someone who most definitely has a bull**** job (loved that book by the way!), I'm already using ChatGPT more than I do Google in my everyday work. As a result, I'm expected to be more productive than I've ever been before. I'm fairly certain my job won't exist in five years, but given the speed at which things are developing, I could be obsolete in five months. Then again, the job I do didn't exist 30 years ago, so who knows what the future holds. I've wondered what I'd do next, but everything I can think of will almost certainly be automated as well.

On a broader note, I find the speed at which things are unravelling rather alarming. We seem to be hurtling headlong into a future that nobody really wants or asked for, all for the sake of 'advancement' and productivity. It's hard to grasp the impact all this will have, especially when you combine AI with robotics or virtual reality. What will my kids do when they grow up? What will be left? Will people still have normal relationships with actual humans? Will we go to watch football, or will we just immerse ourselves in a virtual world where we get to be the star player and score the winner in the World Cup final. If that was possible, and it actually looked and felt real, why would anyone go and watch Notts County?

Then there's the unimaginable idea/threat of an AI becoming godlike in its knowledge and power, which, if things continue to progress exponentially, could happen fast.

What the hell are we playing at? It reminds me of a conversation in the first Jurassic Park film, where the mathematician dude says something along the lines of, "Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could that they didn't stop to think whether they should."