A.I. Are you Excited?

[Rowdie]

It's sure made searches fast and efficient. If I'm looking to see when the sessions of a state tournament start, just ask it. No searching to clicking around or signing up to a website, just bang, here you go. I know it helped care for my cat when she was bit by a rattle snake (that's all we could think of)

 

[johnr]

Hoping it helps all the Geeks get laid.

 

[Davy Crockett]

Hoping it helps all the Geeks get laid.

It wouldn't be the first time .

 

[Auggie]

 

[Lycanthrope]

I havent watched the whole thing yet, but the first half was informative, interesting info about the history of AI dev...

 

[Davy Crockett]

They are interesting , I saved the last one and watched some of it . This one too, I wish they werent so long winded.

 

[Lycanthrope]

They are interesting , I saved the last one and watched some of it . This one too, I wish they werent so long winded.

I think long form podcasts are something you need to work up to, maybe like running a 10k... Ive been listening to them for years. My mom can only do about 20 minutes at a time, before her brain starts to overheat. I could never just sit and listen to one without doing something else, but when im listening, Im always doing other things at the same time. Shopping, mowing the lawn, surfing on my phone, driving, etc. Its a much better use of your time than listening to music, for sure...

 

[Vollmer]

I'm a big podcast person as well. I have been for YEARS. Especially when driving.

 

[Lycanthrope]

Interesting X Post...

Elon Musk just said the quiet part out loud about where AI actually ends up.

Musk: “The honest answer for AI and robotics is long term working will be optional.”

Long term meaning ten years from now or less.

For centuries, human survival has required human labor. That is the oldest equation in civilization.

You work or you don’t eat. You work or you lose the shelter. You work or you fall behind everyone who does.

Musk is describing the end of that equation entirely.

Musk: “If you wanna work you can. Kind of like if you grow vegetables, you can grow vegetables in your garden or you can get them from the store.”

The analogy is quieter than the claim deserves.

Growing your own vegetables is something people do for joy. For ritual. For the satisfaction of making something with their hands.

Not because they would starve otherwise.

That is what work becomes.

Musk: “It’s extra work to grow your own vegetables but people enjoy the process. That’s gonna be how work is in the future.”

When AI and robotics scale to their limit, the cost of physical goods and services collapses toward zero.

Labor stops being the mechanism that separates people who survive from people who don’t.

What happens to human motivation when survival is no longer the reason to get up?

That is the question nobody building this technology has answered.

The abundance is coming. The crisis of meaning is coming with it.

Musk is describing the greatest liberation in human history.

He is also describing the greatest identity crisis our species has ever faced.

Both arrive on the same timeline.

Ten years or less.