Pool History - Artificial Intelligence

[T411]

We've got enough regular slop on this site, we don't need "ai" contributing to it.

Like I said, AI is what it is you either get on board or get left behind.

Fear or dislike of forum discussion of AI is misplaced. The threat isn’t to labor jobs like we’ve seen with past technology. The threat is to higher skilled work like doctors, attorneys, designers, architects, writers, musicians. These people in these jobs used to feel untouchable.

If I have a concern since I’m none of those, it’s how the economy is going to adjust when that kind of job displacement starts to hit.

Again the concern of how to handle AI using people’s likeness like the video above. What happens if pool players, or anyone really, living or long gone, are depicted endorsing products or saying things without their consent or their family’s or estate’s consent?

Technology always displaces jobs but this technology is exponential and society never adapts fast enough to stay ahead of the problems new technology creates.

All of us, in one way or another, endorse the use of new technology, even if begrudgingly otherwise we wouldn’t even be in this forum.

 

[Twocylndr]

Saw on the news this morning Amazon will be laying off ~600,000 people; they will be replaced with robots.
My job can be done by AI; I program PLCs. No worry for me I'm over retirement age and my side job is a vegetable farmer. Let's see AI (robots) pick tomatoes, cut cabbage, pull beets and turnips. Oops, machines already do that. Damn!
My son on the other hand, in his late 20s, won't be so fortunate. He audits bank transactions looking for money laundering. He voiced his concern about a year ago.
I am all for technology...but what will happen to the work force...the saying if all else fails, you can always flip burgers isn't going to be true in the future!

 

[T411]

Saw on the news this morning Amazon will be laying off ~600,000 people; they will be replaced with robots.
My job can be done by AI; I program PLCs. No worry for me I'm over retirement age and my side job is a vegetable farmer. Let's see AI (robots) pick tomatoes, cut cabbage, pull beets and turnips. Oops, machines already do that. Damn!
My son on the other hand, in his late 20s, won't be so fortunate. He audits bank transactions looking for money laundering. He voiced his concern about a year ago.
I am all for technology...but what will happen to the work force...the saying if all else fails, you can always flip burgers isn't going to be true in the future!

Good points but there is a difference between robotics and AI even though the two are starting to merge.

Robotics handles the physical side of labor like machines doing tasks like picking produce, building cars, or packing boxes. Robots have already displaced work welding which is what I did.

Artificial intelligence is 5he thinking and creative part - it analyzes data, makes decisions, and recognizes patterns, like what your son does.

That’s where my concern is too and the new concern of everyone. This shift is happening so fast that the economy might not have time to adjust especially once AI starts replacing highly skilled jobs like doctors, attorneys, and engineers. In my book physical labor jobs are just as important, but when the “educated” professions start disappearing, the ripple effects could hit might be looked at differently because society values those roles in a different way.

It kind of reminds me of when Walmart wiped out mom & pop stores - nobody in the establishment cared. But when Amazon started taking down brick & mortar chains then some people suddenly had a problem. Those losses hit closer to home for 5he establishment.

 

[maha]

as it gets better you wont be able to tell what is real or not. right now much of the videos you see on u tube are ai. you can still tell by the voice part it is just a created trap to get views and it works.

in the near future it will created a whole movie or scenes that are made up and a person wont be able to tell just speculate.

 

[maha]

many jobs will go as did the wagon wheel makers. that's life and everyone can plan for it and diversify into better positions. if you don't, you lose out, simple as that.