The Robot Revolution

[Thales750]

The reality is that every job in the world is being replaced by Ai or Ai driven robots.

Fear is irrelevant, resistance is futile.

We are living in the last days before the impending renaissance.

It is either black death, or it is a great rebirth. it all depends on when you were born, and when you lived.

 

[AccessBlaster]

Maybe it's our natural progression...

 

[The_Doc_Man]

We are living in the last days before the impending renaissance.

I would PERHAPS correct that to "We are living in the days in transition to the burgeoning renaissance." Your version would make it seem like the changes haven't occurred yet. I think they have already started. Just one man's opinion.

 

[Isaac]

Times are changing at a pace that continues to accelerate - the pace itself. It's overwhelming at times to ponder.
I wonder how my Dad feels, and how I'll feel at age 80, if I'm still alive even.

I also think AI will end up being more costly than most people anticipate. So far I am seeing a lot of "AI is everywhere, AI will do everything, AI will take over the world", but little attention being given to the extreme energy costs associated with it. I wonder if most people are properly taking that into account. Small towns are battling data centers at every turn

 

[The_Doc_Man]

Small towns are battling data centers at every turn

Residents in central Louisiana - near Alexandria - are fighting (but losing to) the data center springing up there because of the energy costs and what it will do to the cost of residential electricity.

 

[MarkK]

The word sabotage originates from the early 1800's after the invention of the the jacquard loom, commonly considered to be the first programmable machine. A sabot was a wooden shoe, and newly unemployed textile workers would, apparently, throw their shoes into the new looms as a protest against this technological advance that threatened their livelihoods.

There is nothing new about technology rending previously important occupations obsolete.

Think of the master craftsmen who built wooden sailing ships, or the row after row of accounting clerks updating ledgers for the British East India Company, or omg, telephone operators. When I was a kid you would talk to an actual person to place a collect call. The operator would place the call, and you'd hear someone answer, and you'd hear the operator ask them if they'd accept the charges.

Plus ca change...

 

[Thales750]

The word sabotage originates from the early 1800's after the invention of the the jacquard loom, commonly considered to be the first programmable machine. A sabot was a wooden shoe, and newly unemployed textile workers would, apparently, throw their shoes into the new looms as a protest against this technological advance that threatened their livelihoods.

There is nothing new about technology rending previously important occupations obsolete.

Think of the master craftsmen who built wooden sailing ships, or the row after row of accounting clerks updating ledgers for the British East India Company, or omg, telephone operators. When I was a kid you would talk to an actual person to place a collect call. The operator would place the call, and you'd hear someone answer, and you'd hear the operator ask them if they'd accept the charges.

Plus ca change...

You're basing that on the conditions created by the industrial revolution. During that time period over the last 250 years or so the growth of the economy was based on augmentation of human skill. So the human worker increase productivity probably 25 times in that period if not more. The takeover of AI and AI controlled robotics is the exact opposite of what you're saying. This technology is not going to augment human skill it's going to take the human out of the loop and do the job better and faster and cheaper.

 

[Thales750]

I would PERHAPS correct that to "We are living in the days in transition to the burgeoning renaissance." Your version would make it seem like the changes haven't occurred yet. I think they have already started. Just one man's opinion.

No I'm not saying that it's a single line of demarcation between the old and the new I mean actually the European Renaissance took you know probably two or three lifetimes before it came about but it ended with the black plague and that left death and destruction over 100 year period of half of all the people living in Europe it was indeed the dark ages. 25 years or maybe two generations past the end of the point of time you want to call the Renaissance they were living in a world of plenty there was more real estate developed than they needed there was more land dedicated to farming was more than I needed and all that excess and increase in personal wealth led to the artistic and scientific age of Discovery and you know the beginning of where we are now with the industrial revolution.
So yeah I agree with you it is already happening but it's going to accelerate over the next few years and it's going to seem like it came all at once even if it's been 50 years in the making.
Sorry I'm talking to my phone again I kind of just doesn't do very good job of putting in commas and periods and sometimes it puts the wrong word in but I'm on the tablet and it's hard for me to go back and change it so bear with me okay thanks

 

[The_Doc_Man]

So yeah I agree with you it is already happening but it's going to accelerate over the next few years and it's going to seem like it came all at once even if it's been 50 years in the making.

Well, crap, isn't that the way of humanity, to walk around dazed and asking "What hit me? Did anyone get the number of that truck?" Regardless of what party you espouse, there is that little issue of human blind spots that have been around for most of recorded time. Different spots, same blindness.