When the time comes when jobs are not the mainstream norm, access to and disbursement of Financial Capital will be crucial for livelihoods of all; people will need to be their own employers and utilise AI to get creative with the help of Financial Capital
Financial Capital will be the means towards accessing quality AI and producing relevant output
I have some insight into the questions I had presented in one of my earlier posts titled “AGI and more ….”
When we consider the fact that AI works on the basis of what has already been done by humans and tech so far, we can safely presume that it will be beneficial for us.
By automating largely what we usually do, we humans can actually avail the newly available mental bandwidth to think of newer endeavours; newer, uncharted, unimagined, untrodden endeavours. This will be paradigm-altering as far as how we live. Life as we have known up until now is indeed going to be upended, and this will be consciously done in a good way.
Remember the tales in movies and literature where someone had the desire and mental capacity to do something but weren’t able to pursue their ambitions due to resource or access constraints? Well, this is set to change when the populace at large is freed from their compulsions; similar to how people’s lives have been enhanced by being able to access Google, being able to access AI can have an impact too! Of course, this will depend on how well democratised and accessible AI tech is made.
When good talent gets chances to pursue desirable goals and such efforts are directed towards inventions, innovations and the earlier mentioned exploration of uncharted dreams, individuals and humanity at large surely stands to benefit from AI.
The human spirit to exert at meaningful goals can be unleashed at a larger scale than how it is now.
A few hours ago, while I was surfing the internet (probably some social media platform or Youtube), something that I was viewing served as a trigger and reminded me of a social media personality that I had not viewed in a long time.
Now, just a few minutes ago, that social media personality’s Youtube channel appeared in my feed.
So, has AI technology evolved to the extent that it is able to understnd us well enough to know how I (my mind) associate(s) the trigger and the social media personality and when I consciously thought of the trigger in an altogether different context, it knew I would also think of the personality?!
This cannot be a coincidence as I distinctly remember personal instances where my mere thinking of something in the context of what I was doing online then, was enough for the AI to identify the trigger and know what else I could think of.
AI in its present form is perceived to be at a nascent stage and if this is what it can do now, it truly is slated to revolutionise and enhace in multitudes and in multiples what we are capable of doing now!
I’m excited about all that I will get to do as I understand AI and harness its capabilities.
A thought for the purpose of understanding through debate (JudgementFree dialogue, please):
Why do we find it unsettling when we ponder over the possibility that AI may make most human work (mostly jobs) redundant?
Technology is only a recent event if we consider the entire human history as we know it. Surely Technology has been an inflection point but does it mean when AI does evolve into ‘that’ (AGI and more) we, as humans, will once again live like we did prior to the advent of Science & Technology?
The Question is: what will Society and Life be like?
If most jobs won’t require human involvement, will it render materialistic competition moot?
With jobs no longer being the point of life for most of the population, thereby no earnings happening, how will then businesses survive with no customers and not much utility for their businesses?
With jobs not being the mainstream norm, will social and family lives improve? Will parents be able to spend more time with their families and raise families better?
Will evolved AI technology radically alter human life such that humans are able to live as they want and technology makes it possible for humans to do so?
Surely Artificial Intelligence is going to make strides in the times to come and has already been impacting Life as we have known up until now.
Yet, the technology is still in its nascent stage and the AI landscape is vast and potent!
Technology, after all, is what we make of it!
As Bill Gates has already said, the age of AI is upon us!
