dgkimpton t1_iz0xlyk wrote on December 5, 2022 at 5:40 PM

Reply to comment by Reddituser45005 in Google says they have made a significant advance in allowing humans to communicate with robots using natural language, and claim an "order of magnitude" increase in capabilities over previous approaches. by lughnasadh

Indeed. It's only a tiny hop from "unskilled labour" (which is inherently badly named) to doing "skilled labour". Programmers like to joke that it's OK to make an AI because they will at least be needed to program the AI's... but fail to realise that a general purpose AI that can outthink a human will quickly become able to program itself. We'll be left only with manual labour, and even that for only a short period until robot bodies are cheap enough.

Doom87er t1_iz15gp8 wrote on December 5, 2022 at 6:30 PM

As a person who works with AI believe me I am aware that a GAI could do my job a million times better than me.

However, a weak AI no matter how advanced will never magically become a GAI purely from becoming strong enough. A GAI is a completely different kind of AI that we are getting closer to, but the AIs coming out today are not that.