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As much as I like AI but the last years are kind of a lot, sometimes just too much for me.

I can't even watch youtube without getting a video translated into my language which is quite annoying.

The first search on google has an AI telling me the stuff I need to know, don't even have to look at real human threads at this point.

Not even going to deep on the AI generated videos, news etc. because that is insane already and we aren't even peaking.

I am 40 years old. Imagine studying a few years on a 200.000 €/$ or whatever currency degree just to find out that the job won't even exist by 2028.

Imagine finding out that you won't be able to pay off your debt cause most fastfood restaurants will use AI/ Bots that can serve, prepare, clean etc. 24/7 while a useless human needs breaks, wants money and needs days off and can only work 8 hour shifts.

I know this sounds crazy but I really think by 2030 we will have 80% jobs replaced by AI and the new jobs that might evolve out of jobs that have vanished will only be doable for AGI/ Super Intelligence.

Think about it.... while in the 1800s machines have replaced or made jobs easier, they still required humans manpower to produce them, to maintaine them and to even use them.

Now we are basically replacing what made humans - human - our brains. As we know the human brain has never ever been replaced by something and that is the organ that put us where we are in the food chain. And we are creating something that is BETTER, FASTER, MORE EFFICIENT than our a brain.

It could all be cool and nice and fun and games if we wouldn't be replacing humans in a very short time frame til 2030. It could all be cool,... if not every country would be competing in this race to super intelligence.

Looking at this neutral and seeing what is happing, imo I might be doomed in 5 years.

I really think I will be fck.d up in 5 years. A job is annoying, but it's also a humans purpose. A way to express itself and be useful to society. If this is being taken away we will find 95% of humanity in a huge depression and suicide rates are going to rise by 2030.

Edit: We can't even imagine and visualise what super intelligence will do and can do. Before we even understand what this AI just created and offered us the next best thing is already produced.

We are basically getting smarter with every new upgrade AI will give us, but get dumber in the process cause we can't even PROCESS the new stuff.

Bland example: currently phones are getting upgrades 1-2 years and we can read whats new and see the new things. Imagine those phones being produced every week with new and better and more useful upgrades. We'd buy the phone, understand the phone and after a week the next phone with 5 new features is on the markert and we are outdated.

We can't process the new upgrades etc. in such a short time frame. We aren't capable of that. This leads us to getting dumber with every new upgrade.

Imagine AI creating a Boeing and after a year we understand how to use it. But during that year it already released a Boeing that can fly at the speed of flight. It can't be used cause humans cant use it and would die at those speeds. But AI could.

AI will be producing so much trash knowledge lol.

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[–] cloudless@piefed.social 7 points 3 days ago (3 children)

I don’t think we will see AGI until at least a decade later. Right now LLM is no longer making significant progress (diminishing returns on scaling), AI research will need to find new ways to achieve AGI. This will probably require breakthrough in quantum computing and energy infrastructure.

[–] rauls5@lemmy.zip 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I’m afraid that LLM is already producing “good enough” results to replace a large portion of workers. It won’t take AGI. If a corporation can achieve mediocre results for basically free, it will over do so over workers.

It’s already happening mediocre AI customer support, photography, illustrations, writing and music are already permeating every facet of our lives.

[–] hypnicjerk@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

'large portion' is doing some extremely heavy lifting there. those slices of industry that are leaning heavily into genai are still experimental and not delivering nearly the promised results. and those services are operating at heavy losses with no clear path to recoup.

enshittification isn't unique to ai at all.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Just a note here, everyone were freaking out about AI => AGI like ten years ago (Superintelligence by Nick Bostrom came out 2015 IIRC), with LLMs it just hit the masses.

Autocorrect still can't figure out what I want to type...

IMO it's democracy and equality that we need to focus on, not some tech bros dream.

[–] Grogon@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

If I was AGI I'd write this comment too.

Just kidding lol.