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[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

AI will make immense progress and all jobs that require a computer will be handed over to AI and robots. There will be hardly any middle managers left. People will do manual or personal stuff that robots cannot do.

Depending on who owns the AI, the distribution of wealth decides which jobs are available. I would bet on a small group of people who are going to decide what humanity will do.

The problem is that AI requires energy. At one point, the decision has to be made whether energy is used for bricks or bytes. Bytes will be prefered so most people will live in tiny rooms.

Since there is not much work to be done, and energy is expensive, people will spent most of their time doing something energy-efficient. Cities will be built for walking distances.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is the ultimate failure of capitalism, an autonomous Workforce should mean that we are all free to live our lives. Instead it just means that we won't be able to eat.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Aspiring artists will find work correcting the fingers and toes in AI illustrations.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago
[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Closer to Idiocracy.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I hope these things will happen

  • Governments invest more money on grid energy storage

  • green hydrogen becomes more common

I fear these will also:

  • global warming gets worse

  • Trump gets elected

  • Watching a few more seasons of the Shitshow is surprisingly entertaining

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Bernie Sanders will be announcing his bid for presidency

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

and showing off his new titanium carapace, shaped like a Gundam

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

build more philons

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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Global warming will get worse, maybe a run away effect might start.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I feel like we are going to be blindsided by tech development in a field a lot of non-tech people don't expect.

Maybe VR/AR really taking off in the mainstream to a point it effects TV sales for example or high quality chatbots or image generation tools that can be easily run locally on consumer hardware.

We might also see cellphones using a different decentralized network.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I think there is going to be a greater push for KYC for social media as we are going to soon be inundated with comments and online activity by bots that is indistinguishable from humans and hyper taylored to its audience. All the stuff Russia pulled with election interference is going to be child's play.

There is also going to be an explosion of content. The same recipe page that took a human a day or two to create will be made in a second. Billions of recipe pages, billions of sports blogs, billions of comments...

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