Dwain Northey (Gen X)

The fear of AI is overblown—and here’s why

Is this beginning have we reached a SkyNet moment are we entering the Matrix or are we already in it?

The fears of AI may be completely over blow at the current time but who know what the future will bring. The 4 main types of artificial intelligence

• Reactive machines. Reactive machines are AI systems that have no memory and are task specific, meaning that an input always delivers the same output. …
• Limited memory. The next type of AI in its evolution is limited memory. …
• Theory of mind. …
• Self-awareness.

Will smart machines kill the labor market? One could argue that in many ways it already has. Automobile manufacturers have used welding robots for decades already and with the advances in robotic technology that has gotten far more efficient. Using reactive machines, robots, has made the manufacturing process safer and more consistent than its previous human method. The human component hasn’t been removed, it has only become more technical and specialized because those machines still need to be programed and invariably repaired.

The elephant in the room currently has to do with the ChatBot technology that can write stories in the tone or voice of author or genre. That obviously is a point of contention for the writes union because production companies are always trying to save money and even though the writers are the lowest paid in any production if those writers can be replaced with a program the money people will always take the cheapest option. I have read some of the things that these AI writers have written and currently the tone and tenor of the writing is almost obviously not written by a human. The again I am pretty sure that Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg are either AI or just aliens in human skins.

My feeling that AI must bring the subject that Andrew Yang ran his campaign on which for those of you that don’t remember was UBI, universal basic income, if robots perform many of the task that people currently do, and those people can’t earn an income the economy would collapse. It is a basic concept if a rich guy like Jeff Bezos, that has good and services he wishes to sell if there is no consumer base to buy his wears, he isn’t a rich guy anymore. I know all you Republicans are saying, this a big government handout, and you are right if the rich want to stay that way they are going to have to pay more in taxes to subsidize the masses otherwise that all they will be able to do is sit in their ivory towers and watch the world crumble outside their gates.