Rise of the Machines

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  1. Jonathan_Vilma

    Jonathan_Vilma Well-Known Member

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    Anyone ever see this creepshow? Not bad.
     
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    I think the scariest part about that video is some lonely dork titled the video with "hot robot".
     
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    Elon Musk is on another one of his anti-AI campaigns and he's made several hostile AI's available for inspection.

    The real problem with AI at the moment is not the possibility of a runaway super-intelligence. It's the possibility of an AI developed by Kim Jong-un or somebody of that ilk as a weapon.

    The runaway super-intelligence problem is always lurking in the background but at the moment we've reached a stage in AI development where weaponization is possible.
     
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    Obviously, Walmart is one of those businesses that believes they will survive customer extinction.

    Maybe they plan to sell replacement parts to the robots?
     
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    There's always self checkout, although that looks like a refugee camp usually.
     
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    Plastic bags are illegal to sell in New Jersey so you can imagine what a disaster self checkout looks like these days.
     
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    Same here. No plastic bags.. or plastic straws in some places, and that's a real travesty. You ever use a paper straw? I'd rather go thirsty.

    I do self checkout, it's just the principle of it. Plus it causes more people to use self checkout who may lack self checkout etiquette.
     
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    The city banned plastic bags here, it’s quite the pain in the ass. But somehow, Walmart still has, and is the only place in town that has plastic bags .
     
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    Just get canvas totes and use them. They're cheap and easy to wash and they last forever.

    I'm still working on the set I bought in 2017.
     
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    I only do self checkout because the cunts at Wegman’s won’t bag your groceries with your own bags. They used to do an awesome job at it too. So instead, they force you to rush to organize your shit in shitty reusable bags in a massive hurry. Now I take my sweet ass time at self checkout.

    It is what it is when I go grocery shopping. I always remember the stupid bags. Where it drives me crazy is if I’m driving home from a meeting or out doing something else and stop at the store and have to carry 6 items out by hand because I’m a stubborn asshole who won’t buy a $1.99 bag out of principal with 100 at home.
     
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    I’m sure you love doing your part to save the world too
     
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    The problem with AI at this point is not that it is going to roll over us. We're not there and probably won't be for quite a long time.

    The problem is it is going to nudge us over and over again in ways that make humans have a severe disadvantage in competing.

    Most of the jobs that are done today can be done better and cheaper by a robot. The rise of AI is extending that reality way up into the upper middle class and ultimately into the 1%.

    Jobs like Architects and Doctors and Lawyers are going to go the way of the dodo, replaced by firms that use robots and AI to do them better and cheaper than they can be done by a human being.

    At first we'll all balk at being operated on by a robot but the numbers are going to show that robotic surgery is much more precise and much safer and probably more likely to correct mistaken diagnoses on the spot. Dentistry will be replaced in the same way as will most specialists and general practitioners.

    It will be much cheaper to have your kids pediatrician be a machine than a person.

    Lawyers will find very quickly that they cannot compete against AI's in what is a completely rules-driven process. Litigators will maintain a presence only until AI and robotics advances to the point that it is hard to tell a robot from a human being, maybe a generation or two down the road. Everybody that works with them will be gone a lot sooner though.

    It's going to be a lot like the chess world where no human being can compete with the current AI's. The chess world has agreed that the championships are only available to human beings and that is what has salvaged the competition and made human chess viable as anything other than an idle past time or hobby.
     
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    The canvas totes are much easier to use than paper or plastic. They create no garbage that I have to manage. They never break at a bad time. They have effective handles for the weight load they can carry. They are impervious to rain and high winds. They sit better in the cargo area of the car, much more stable and easy to secure. They cost me very little at this point after a $3.99 purchase each about 6 years ago.

    I have hot/cold totes that I use to transport hot and cold food. Paper and plastic were always miserable for this kind of duty.

    What exactly makes paper and plastic a better option than totes that you own?
     

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