Quote Originally Posted by Geoff Parkstone View Post
That final point is the crux of the matter. If you automate most all jobs and "free mankind from the necessity of work", where does society go? No work = no wage, thus everyone effectively given flat wage / benefit by state from corporate taxes? No entrepreneurs, no incentives. We all become faceless automatons of the state, but with nothing to do. That might appeal to some, but not me.

Work may "enslave people" but no work would enslave them even more. I can't get my head around where AI and automation is taking us. But I don't think I'd like it, but fortunately will be dead soon enough to avoid finding out. Mankind faces a very dystopian future.
Call me a luddite by all means but I don't see, and all the definitions I can find sort of back me up on this, any actual revolution in AI, other than maybe the speed of learning. Everything 'AI' does could be done five, ten, sometimes fif**** years ago and its just the processing power/speed of computers that's changed. That's EVOLUTION not REVOLUTION and as such doesn't require, or deserve, a ***y epithet like AI, other than as something for IT companies and the media to hang a hat on. Back to my spinning jenny I guess, or maybe a chat with Zager And Evans