Facebook, Google, Youttube already trust mot of the engineering work to automation.

You can automate the calculations and some idea generation, but there's hard limits on how far you can take that.

define "most of the engineering work" Last I heard they were still hiring coders.

they have to, with millions of minutes of youtube content being uploaded every day, thats undoable for a normal person

Okay, like .01% worlds jobs are safe, GG guys

No, this whole "AI is going to put everyone out of work" is badly overhyped.

And reflects a lack of creativity and understanding of fundamental limits.

They are putting people out of jobs, not ARE putting people out of jobs.

nah people get the limits, they just dont know we're not close to achieving the desired outcome 😉

Like, AI is already in a position where it will likely be dominated by a few major players just because they have all the data

And with stuff like GDPR...

Can your brain functions be replicated by a computer?

That's a hard question to answer.

And I'm not sure it actually matters at the end of the day.

It does.

Since you don't need a full brain to do that many tasks.

That's the question, is there something magical about being human that makes us irreplaceable by a robot brain.

we dont know how, but its possible

Now we're just debating metaphysics.

nah

No we're not.

its possible, but compare it to like:

"Can we live on any planet?"

Sure, just gotta learn to terraform

And terraforming takes hundreds of years.

exactly

is it possible? yes
Can we do it now? Fuck no

One thing I would point out with this AI stuff.

You saying that AI will NEVER replace X job is the same thing as people who said they'll never flay, they'll never break the sound barrier, they'll never split the atom, and so on.

It doesn't entirely matter. If AI starts becoming sufficiently powerful, we'll integrate it into ourselves.

And then it's a completely different distinction.

Now that's just fallacious.

There's been lots of stuff people have said would happen that never did.

Like what?

Look at old sci-fi. People wonder over all the stuff they got right but forget all the stuff they got wrong.

we'd have a moonbase by 1980

We could.

We just did have a economic motive to do it

Didn't have one that is.

Humans are not horses, is the main issue with the argument against market solving the problem

It's a gross oversimplification of the issue

I'd argue there's an even deeper issue. Everyone gets this strong AI/human distinction. But it doesn't exist.

Who said anything about it not be an optimal state?