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?

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    The reason your someone might have thought this was a stupid question is because

    • there is no evidence that AGI is imminent or even possible
    • current tech labeled as AI is really limited in very boring ways, like LLMs

    If some thing gets sold as an AGI, it will be a Mechanical Turk, As in, it will be a magic trick that actually uses human laborers like Amazon’s “AI Store” where you just walk out with your purchases. “If it works, it’s mechanical turks.”

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      AGI isn’t possible? You will need some proof for that.

      Computers are already faster and more reliable than humans in lots of things, whe shouldn’t they be better tomorrow?

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        My very limited understanding, is simply that LLMs are not an early iteration of AGI.

        In the same way automobiles are not an early iteration of aeroplanes. They use some of the same tech but before there were aeroplanes no one really knew what was possible.

        It’s true that computers get faster and more amazing, but that’s not an indication that AGI is possible.

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        He’s saying there’s no proof it is. Like there’s no proof of God. Doesn’t mean it isn’t magically possible but in our reality there isn’t a defined way. If there was we’d be there.

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              That the human brain exists is enough evidence that intelligence is possible. An AGI similar to the human brain is then possible at a minimum

              Can’t say much more than that for sure, but you have a starting point.

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                Because intelligence exists, AGI similar to the human brain is possible? Your conclusion does not follow the premise.

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                    You are talking funny friend… we can NOT recreate the human brain. Maybe someday, but so far it has not been demonstrated to be possible.

                    You say that we can recreate the human brain because we know the human brain can exist.

                    The sun can exist, can we recreate the sun?

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                So you think it’s an inevitability? Given enough time we will develop one?

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                  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

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                    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’