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TheSensibleTurk t1_j9kkxhq wrote

This is the real deal. All this hype over AI is little different than the hype over cryptocurrency a few years ago. No, we're not gonna have automated luxury societies without money or employment within our lifetimes. Quantum computing otoh will actually be a revolutionary thing.

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rileyoneill t1_j9laj2s wrote

AI is already performing work that humans used to do. If 10% of jobs today are automated by 2030 that would be an enormous change in society.

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TheSensibleTurk t1_j9ky76z wrote

They laid people off because they had gone on a hiring spree when the fed had quantitative easing. They over hired. Now, the fed stopped the gravy train and they had to scale back.

Jeff Bezos or his successor in Amazon are smart enough to realize that you need customers to make a profit. Profit, innovation and a strong demand economy are intertwined. It may be that a millennia from now, humans will have moved beyond any economic model today. But we won't be living Wall-E for the remainder of this century at a minimum.

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MattKozFF t1_j9ngqbk wrote

Neutral network ML is revolutionizing the world as we speak.

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AnotherPersonsReddit t1_j9l0jj8 wrote

Yeah but what about AI running on a quantum computer?

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TheSensibleTurk t1_j9l0xiz wrote

It will be useful in de-encrypying encryption that at the moment is considered foolproof. Apple et al will have to come up with a completely new model of encryption.

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AnotherPersonsReddit t1_j9l16tm wrote

Right I get that, theoretically quantum computers can crunch hashes in no time. But in what way will it improve our society? The only thing I see happening is what's currently happening with technology, The elite well use it to further their own interests in leaving the rest of us with what we have now.

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UniversalMomentum t1_j9l4s37 wrote

We don't need AI to automate most things. AI will be for figuring out very big problem and won't be like proliferate in Everday products.

The limits now are not chips, it's definitely the programming. Quantum chips will only have specific uses and silicon will keep doing most of the stuff.

A super smart AI would be nice, but what we need far more is just lots of robotic labor/automation to lower the costs of everything and increase the standard of living once our economic systems catch up to the new reality.

You can probably automate the majority of jobs just with silicon/machine learning and good programming. Most jobs don't require the ridiculous amounts of computation you can get from quantum. Really the most useful thing a real AI could do right now is to replace the 98% junk code that's currently out there to actually get the most of the chips. That or solve all human behavior problems, but I'm not holding my breath any AI will ever be that smart.

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