Next gen AI, or the world we will live in

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At some point, prediction will get good enough at Amazon that it will make sense to send you stuff before you order it. When a car can drive a lot better than you can, not only will you be safer, it will lower your transport costs by removing most of your legal liability, and drop the cost of insurance markedly.

This has hundreds of applications. Eventually your toilet will call your Doc, and instead of you calling your Doc when you have a problem, his AI will call your AI and make an appointment before you're aware anything is wrong.

There is a hub and spoke system in a city in Europe. The hubs are vans that work an area of the suburb. They take commuters to work, then kids to school, then people that want to shop. It's very cost effective. But throw in AI, and it gets even more efficient. The van's AI will contact your AI, and schedule the right time to come get you.

What that means is that owning a car will not be cost efficient (which it isn't in a number of cities already, but this will take that to the next level).

This will take time, of course, but it is fascinating.



https://www.c-span.org/video/?444193-2/prediction-machines

 

[southwest88]

Listen: there’s a hell of a good universe next door; let’s go.

Yes, the technology & cultural impacts are very interesting.

But of course, efficiency is not the goal of human life - or @ least, not as presently construed. We may very well get to the point that we implant skull phones & the like, to keep track of time, agendas, schedules, news, personal comms & all that. But a tighter bond with our mechanical systems & smart phones & such still isn't the goal of human society.

Unless, perhaps, we mean to emulate ants, or bees, or other social insects. & that point, if everyone is hardwired into a giant network of networks, Why would people leave their home/apartment @ all? Everything can be ordered in, subliminally, if you like. The house AI will order, receive, pay & store the goods; & trot them out & put them away as needed. If you can visit anyplace through feelies, & get your entertainment that way too - why would we bother with subways, airports, sidewalks, mass trans, pets?

Feeling lonely? Call up a Friend app & chatter away? Marvin the paranoid android wasn't sick, he was merely considerably ahead of his time.

Arthur: I think that door just sighed.

Marvin: Ghastly, isn’t it? All the doors on this spaceship have been programmed to have a cheery and sunny disposition.

 

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Re: Listen: there’s a hell of a good universe next door; let’s go.

Yes, the technology & cultural impacts are very interesting.

But of course, efficiency is not the goal of human life - or @ least, not as presently construed. We may very well get to the point that we implant skull phones & the like, to keep track of time, agendas, schedules, news, personal comms & all that. But a tighter bond with our mechanical systems & smart phones & such still isn't the goal of human society.

Unless, perhaps, we mean to emulate ants, or bees, or other social insects. & that point, if everyone is hardwired into a giant network of networks, Why would people leave their home/apartment @ all? Everything can be ordered in, subliminally, if you like. The house AI will order, receive, pay & store the goods; & trot them out & put them away as needed. If you can visit anyplace through feelies, & get your entertainment that way too - why would we bother with subways, airports, sidewalks, mass trans, pets?

Feeling lonely? Call up a Friend app & chatter away? Marvin the paranoid android wasn't sick, he was merely considerably ahead of his time.

Arthur: I think that door just sighed.

Marvin: Ghastly, isn’t it? All the doors on this spaceship have been programmed to have a cheery and sunny disposition.

Hitchhikers Guide!!!!!! Love it (but not the movie)

I had Veblen in mind, more time to do stuff.

One of the things that's been clear for some time, is that countries that are going to succeed are going to be the countries that do the best job on investing in their kids future.

Republicans want a Robocop future, but demographically, their days are numbered. This assumes Trump doesn't get what he wants, to become a dictator.

That Cspan video is awesome.

 

[Tres1B]

Re: Listen: there’s a hell of a good universe next door; let’s go.

Automated Cars would be pretty big when it comes to issues with drunk driving. The AI won't become intoxicated as well - it'll drive as good as ever. And it'll drive better than you can even when you're sober.

Things like Uber won't be needed anymore.

 

[southwest88]

Maybe we could have lots of potlatches

Hitchhikers Guide!!!!!! Love it (but not the movie)

I had Veblen in mind, more time to do stuff.

One of the things that's been clear for some time, is that countries that are going to succeed are going to be the countries that do the best job on investing in their kids future.

Republicans want a Robocop future, but demographically, their days are numbered. This assumes Trump doesn't get what he wants, to become a dictator.

That Cspan video is awesome.

Yah, I actually liked the first movie of Hitchhiker's (1981) better than the 2nd - even though the 2nd had much nicer sfx. I think they lost some of the quirky charm of the first theatrical movie version.

Veblen, yah. It may be too late - as cotton & leather goods manufacturing swept the NE US from the 1870s on, there were factory girls reading paperback classics of the day - a happy coincidence of mass literacy & mass literature in an affordable format. I don't know what our post-secondary young adults would do now if they didn't have work to occupy them - I don't think they're up to reading a lot, nor writing the Great American Novel.

Something will surely turn up, it always does. But I doubt that Veblen would recognize the resulting dislocations of life arc among the young so displaced.