How would that have any impact on what type of society we have?

The only thing it changes is the corporate names.

Corporations themselves age out and die all the time when they fail to adapt.

Willful ignorance does not change reality.

Which is why I highlighted issues caused by population that technology is not keeping up with.

A population explosion makes all of these problems much worse, with no promise of technology solving any of them.

No, it has not.

Things have gotten better with technology, population just happened to move in the same direction.

Where is everyone going to live when the world has a population of 20 billion? Housing prices are already rising faster than inflation.

Where are you going to get the food? We are already draining the aquifers, rivers, and lakes.

What are you going to do about population. Supporting 20 billion people is going to consume far more energy, require increased manufacturing, and necessitate more mining. The oceans are already being depleted, this would only accelerate.

More crowded living conditions presents a breeding ground for both crime and disease.

How are young people supposed to advance in careers where their seniors never move on?

He would be President in 10 years.

Immortality is also a huge problem if implemented in general.

A lot of today’s problems are the result of population, and immortality will cause populations to skyrocket.

We get Cyberpunk 2077

Assuming no major alignment problems.

That’s not how facial recognition works, and it’s not how the technology is used.

All this does is compare images from a camera connected to a crime with a database of publicly accessible photos. When it finds matches, it provides the match locations, e.g. Facebook.

Police investigators then use those leads to identify potential suspects.

You still have the rest of the investigation, and human eyes on the images and the potential suspects.

It can pass a mock exam with all the same questions as a real exam.

It cannot pass the Bar and be recognized as a lawyer. Those are two very different things.

No photograph is blindly accepted. A lot of human eyes will be on both the images and the person between them being called out as a suspect and conviction.

That includes the defense attorney.

Sorry, it has not passed the Bar, and won’t be given an opportunity to do so without a court order.

I already posted my opinions on global AI adoption elsewhere.

Very few people are going to willingly testify in court unless they are bringing an ax to grind.

If the court had a real reason for his testimony, it could compel his appearance.

8 years is an eternity in AI development.

Comparing a modern AI to something from that long ago would be the equivalent of taking someone with a masters degree and judging them by the work they did in kindergarten.

Cops cannot visually identify everyone. No human can.

Before this, all the cops had to identify a picture from a camera was files full of mug shots. This would present several problems addressed by facial recognition.

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1. Human identification from mug shots is notoriously error prone
2. It only work if there are mug shots or other evidence that identifies the individual.
3. Fingerprints and DNA are only going to be available if the person was previously arrested. The same problem that mug shots present.

The important part is, is it more accurate than human witnesses identifying suspects from photos.

Pretty certain this software is going to be more accurate. Human identification has always had a substantial error rate.

A lot of the implementation of GPT-4 and Stable Diffusion (and similar AI) is going to be on hold pending the current legal challenges, which are likely to take years and reach the Supreme Court.

I expect the legal challenges to slow implementation for 2-5 years, at a minimum. Certain outcomes could reduce implementation drastically. No company will implement AI if anything created with any level of AI assistance is found to be uncopyrightable.

I wouldn’t go with a bomb.

I would go with an agricultural drone and spray homemade napalm over a large/dense crowd.

Flares are fairly easy to set up as an ignition source.

This is the almost certain extension of what is being learned in Ukraine.

It’s not a question of if, it’s when.

Some places will adopt the technology faster than others, and those jobs will be at risk.

But it won’t be everywhere all at once.

Just like software automation has been displacing jobs for a few decades now.

The biggest difference is, far fewer new jobs will be created. One of the jobs most subject to future automation is the people automating software.

Think about how many jobs could be automated out of existence today by someone proficient with Excel or a well written database.

Think about how long this capability has existed.

Think about the rate at which it has actually taken place.

It’s less about “can AI do this” and more about how long will it take for businesses to adopt and integrate the technology.

And a trial may, or may not, happen, depending upon the investigation results.

If so, he will answer for anything he may have done.

But that’s not the same thing as taking away a retirement he worked a lifetime for over an allegation.

I wasn’t disagreeing so much as reinforcing with more accurate information.

People like to shit on Walmart.

While a lot of the points are technically correct, the whole point is to bring lower prices to the consumer.

Walmart simply cannot correct many of their issues without raising prices, because they already have a very low profit margin. It would quickly flip from making money from volume to losing billions.

The first part is already announced.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-64970062.amp

It’s being incorporated into 365

I’m not going to fight them, I’m going to transcend them.

Even when attacked, he took the mora high ground instead of killing his attackers.

Everything he did, he did for love. Playing the stock market was a perfectly legitimate means to an end.

He needed money to finance his research, with the end goals of saving the planet from climate change (his wife’s passion) and returning to a biological body.