Like any tool, it depends on how you use it. As a teenager, I used it to paint and write. It opened many doors. I found inner expression that was not possible otherwise.
The measures used in the study are not absolutes and only a fragment of what constitutes human intelligence.
>Keller said he's changed the system so customers with reservations have to pre-pay for drinks, including a service charge. "It's just to protect our staff," he said.
Know what would protect staff no matter what? A living wage.
It's simple. The powers that be rely on the constant stream of bad news to convince the terrified population to give away what control they have. It's a spectrum- dictatorships use it, sure, but even democracies work with media to control the message, so people even continue feel the basic need to be governed. The whole thing is a psyop or sorts.
considering his casual disregard for the feelings of fellow Harvard students back in the day, I doubt he cares what his legacy is. Just being rich and famous is plenty reward.
I'm thinking of all of the people who have pickup jobs, cobbling together 3-4 jobs with no benefits from anyone, the so-called "sidegig" industry really can't afford a mass takeover of robots. they will drop out of the bottom and then need social services to survive, at a time with the federal climate is very anti-public assistance.
I'm old. I am not rich in the pecuniary way, but in friendship and canine companionship. And I eagerly support young candidates. I don't want to be led by good ole boys and gals who refuse to relinquish power and represent with antique ideas. We're not all jealous horders. Some just want to live in peace and are generous in spirit. And I bet you a $250 bill that we are legion.
I wonder if when it truly becomes indistinguishable from reality if people won't increasingly seek direct experiences with fellow humans. We're already experiencing this as a family. AI is such a strange mental rabbit hole, we're suffering from "tailored for you" fatigue. When you just want some objective answers, what pleases you the best is NOT useful, and at this point in the curve, you have to work harder to get LLMs to give you what you need rather that what it thinks will engage you more. My adult kids have started gathering to play board games and hang out in person whereas three years ago they'd be content to play online games together. We're hitting that threshold, right now, where our biology is pushing back.
I don't think the future as painted for us presently is as guaranteed as those would profit from it would like you to think.
Cool. let's phase out or change all of the other things that can kill you as readily as smoking can: obesity, highly processed foods, air pollution, sedentary jobs / inactivity, chronic alcohol drinking, unsafe driving, occupational hazards, chronic stress/poor mental health care, unsafe food and water.
The acceleration point for both age groups studied is 2012. What happened that year? The article doesn't try to answer this. Might be mentioned in the study I suppose.
Does the "outperforming" conclusion incorporate the appropriateness of decisions? Or just if things are technically correct. Without human eyes on cases, things could easily get very off track. AI can do a lot of data wrangling, but there is no conscience.
>you have disposable income to spend on something as useless as instagram or facebook
Useless in the big picture, but I know people who are cobbling together various income streams to maintain basic quality of life- including sponsored posts on social media. Which gives the platforms a very real value. I'm not saying they aren't exploitative, and overall they don't contribute to the advancement of society- but there a a LOT of big employment holes in the west and like these platforms or not, these platforms are plugging a lot of holes, if only mostly timidly except for the usual stars.
this is reason enough to close the vast majority of them. if you're engaged in discussion, that's one type. the doomscrolling types, more addictive but very much more disposable.
The measures used in the study are not absolutes and only a fragment of what constitutes human intelligence.