I asked someone this question before and they said it was a really stupid question and I’m not sure why so thought I would ask it here…

What’s going to happen when AI becomes really advanced? Is there a plan for what all of the displaced people are going to do? Like for example administrative assistance, receptionist, cashiers, office workers, White collar people. Is there going to be some sort of retraining program of some sort to get people cross-trained into other careers like nursing or other careers that have not yet been automated? Or are people just going to lose their homes, be evicted and is there going to be like some sort of mass eviction and homelessness downstream effect because people can’t find any work?

    • SkyeStarfall
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      3 months ago

      The question wasn’t whether it’s inevitable, but whether it’s possible

      And the answer to whether it’s possible is a clear: Yes, because we already have general intelligence

      But it’s very much not an inevitability, no. Civilization could always collapse before we get to that point, after all

      • UmeU@lemmy.world
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        3 months ago

        Just because intelligence exists does not mean it is possible to artificially create general intelligence… we would need some evidence that AGI is possible other than ‘makes sense to me’

        • SkyeStarfall
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          3 months ago

          Well, here we need to specify what “artificial” in this equation means. Because to me it just means “created by humans” (so, not natural processes). It doesn’t say anything about it not being able to be near-identical to natural brains