Can AI and Robots do your job?

[Irace86.2.0]

I think we will probably see advancement of robots, automation and AI that comes on so strong and fast that there will be massive layoffs. There will be a technological race to move business to cheaper labor, which will be robots. The companies that do this the fastest may make the most money, but eventually, the hit across multiple industries will drive down demand, as unemployment rises. There will either be a point where things balance out, or it will be a race to be ever more efficient with robots and automation to make the product cheaper to support the decreased demand and buying power. Again, I don't know if there will be a homeostasis that works, but I predict two things: either robots take over the workforce entirely, in which there is a UBI, or people will elect representatives to office that will implement laws to restrict the use of robots/AI/automation.

The other piece of legislation that will need to be passed in regards to robotics is with weaponry. Imagine a few billionaires like Musk, Gates and Bezos creating a robotic workforce in the millions or billions that is basically a personal army that could execute their orders. This private army could be a concern.

I asked ChatGPT to do some math for me, and it appears that if the cost of each robot could be built at $20k each that the top 10 richest people in the world could build an army of robots greater than the active personnel of all armies combined (very roughly).

[Irace86.2.0]

It seems like a hacker, rich person or AI could have a lot of control over a huge network of robots that could be used in a military capacity that were used in a non-military capacity.

Judgement Day is coming.

[Spuds]

Especially if we need to ask AI to do basic math for us...

[soundman98]

net worth is not the same as liquid asset worth.

it's why musk was living with roommates for a little while in texas.

[Irace86.2.0]

Originally Posted by Spuds

Especially if we need to ask AI to do basic math for us...

Haha, but for real. The first people who will lose their jobs will be to people who can use ChatGPT as a tool like for coding. In the example video I provided; the guy could code, but he was coding the game faster working with the system. I figured why look up the numbers and then laboriously add them up when ChatGPT could do it all in seconds? The system is a better calculator, among other things.

[Irace86.2.0]

Originally Posted by soundman98

net worth is not the same as liquid asset worth.

it's why musk was living with roommates for a little while in texas.

Yes yes, I know this. It was just a basic exercise. I don’t know the price to build robots or what their buying power will be to make these, especially because this was based on individual buying power, yet their respective companies would be building these for industries and consumption, so their building potential is far higher.

[Spuds]

Originally Posted by Irace86.2.0

Haha, but for real. The first people who will lose their jobs will be to people who can use ChatGPT as a tool like for coding. In the example video I provided; the guy could code, but he was coding the game faster working with the system. I figured why look up the numbers and then laboriously add them up when ChatGPT could do it all in seconds? The system is a better calculator, among other things.

Sure, if someone is better at writing text than coding or doing math it can make things faster. But that's really not the case. It's actually easier to learn modern coding language than another human language. If you know how to code, it's quicker to write code than it is to describe it in English. It's the most annoying feature of software engineers IMO lol. The real trick would be getting chatgpt to translate complex code back into human speech.

[NoHaveMSG]

And people complain about wage gap between the classes now.

[soundman98]

Originally Posted by NoHaveMSG

And people complain about wage gap between the classes now.

bad news:
we all live in over-crowded apartments
we all fight for staying alive to build stuff for the elite 10% of society.
earth is ran by gangsters and thugs

good news:
we get an exosuit
finally get to drive a gt-r

[Spuds]

Originally Posted by soundman98

bad news:
we all live in over-crowded apartments
we all fight for staying alive to build stuff for the elite 10% of society.
earth is ran by gangsters and thugs

good news:
we get an exosuit
finally get to drive a gt-r

3 of those things are already true though...

[Irace86.2.0]

Originally Posted by Spuds

Sure, if someone is better at writing text than coding or doing math it can make things faster. But that's really not the case. It's actually easier to learn modern coding language than another human language. If you know how to code, it's quicker to write code than it is to describe it in English. It's the most annoying feature of software engineers IMO lol. The real trick would be getting chatgpt to translate complex code back into human speech.

It can do that too. I put in some Java code that was three pages long, and it told me what it was for. Find some code and post it here, and I will have it interpret it.

Unless a coder was just doing copy and paste, there is no way a coder could write pages of code in seconds like Chat GPT. The video I posted in post 66 illustrates its abilities well.

[soundman98]

Originally Posted by Spuds

3 of those things are already true though...

[Spuds]

Originally Posted by Irace86.2.0

It can do that too. I put in some Java code that was three pages long, and it told me what it was for. Find some code and post it here, and I will have it interpret it.

Unless a coder was just doing copy and paste, there is no way a coder could write pages of code in seconds like Chat GPT. The video I posted in post 66 illustrates its abilities well.

Same code, major explanatory comments removed. Edit: and name changed.

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~scottm/cs...nericList.java

public class Superfly{
// class constant for default size
private static final int DEFAULT_CAP = 10;

//instance variables
// iValues store the elements of the list and
// may have extra capacity
private Object[] iValues;
private int iSize;

public void add(Object x){
insert(iSize, x);
}

public Object get(int pos){
return iValues[pos];
}


public void insert(int pos, Object obj){
ensureCapcity();
for(int i = iSize; i > pos; i--){
iValues[i] = iValues[i - 1];
}
iValues[pos] = obj;
iSize++;
}

public Object remove(int pos){
Object removedValue = iValues[pos];
for(int i = pos; i < iSize - 1; i++)
iValues[i] = iValues[i + 1];
iValues[iSize - 1] = null;
iSize--;
return removedValue;
}

private void ensureCapcity(){
// is there extra capacity available?
// if not, resize
if(iSize == iValues.length)
resize();
}

public int size(){
return iSize;
}

// resize internal storage container by a factor of 2
private void resize() {
Object[] temp = new Object[iValues.length * 2];
System.arraycopy(iValues, 0, temp, 0, iValues.length);
iValues = temp;
}

public String toString(){
// we could make this more effecient by using a StringBuffer.
// See alternative version
String result = "size: " + iSize + ", elements: [";
for(int i = 0; i < iSize - 1; i++)
result += iValues[i].toString() + ", ";
if(iSize > 0 )
result += iValues[iSize - 1];
result += "]";
return result;
}

// Would not really have this and toString available
// both included just for testing
public String toStringUsingStringBuffer(){
StringBuffer result = new StringBuffer();
result.append( "size: " );
result.append( iSize );
result.append(", elements: [");
for(int i = 0; i < iSize - 1; i++){
result.append(iValues[i]);
result.append(", ");
}
if( iSize > 0 )
result.append(iValues[iSize - 1]);
result.append("]");
return result.toString();
}

public Superfly(){
//redirect to single int constructor
this(DEFAULT_CAP);
//other statments could go here.
}

public Superfly(int initialCap) {
assert initialCap > 0 : "Violation of precondition. IntListVer1(int initialCap):"
+ "initialCap must be greater than 0. Value of initialCap: " + initialCap;
iValues = new Object[initialCap];
iSize = 0;
}

public boolean equals(Object other){
boolean result;
if(other == null)
// we know this is not null so can't be equal
result = false;
else if(this == other)
// quick check if this and other refer to same IntList object
result = true;
else if( this.getClass() != other.getClass() )
// other is not an IntList they can't be equal
result = false;
else{
// other is not null and refers to an IntList
GenericList otherList = (GenericList)other;
result = this.size() == otherList.size();
int i = 0;
while(i < iSize && result){
result = this.iValues[i].equals( otherList.iValues[i] );
i++;
}
}
return result;
}

}

[Irace86.2.0]

Originally Posted by Spuds

Same code, major explanatory comments removed. Edit: and name changed.

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~scottm/cs...nericList.java

I put it in and got this: