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Creating 1 job is better than hundreds?

Well, Hotz did state that, “The truth is that work as we know it in its modern form has not been around that long, and I kind of want to use AI to abolish it. I want to take everyone’s jobs. Most people would be happy with that, especially the ones who don’t like their jobs. Let’s free them of mental tedium and push that to machines. In the next 10 years, you’ll see a big segment of the human labor force fall away. In 25 years, AI will be able to do almost everything a human can do. The last people with jobs will be AI programmers.”

Yeah and the world will split in rich and poor people with poor starving.

What interests me about your argument is the assumption that the "poor starving" will just sit by and passively accept that.

The reason we don't have an insurrection on our hands now about wealth disparity is that while the wealth of the super wealthy has accelerated hugely so has the general living standard of the poor, if (when) the jobs go away that will no longer be the case and then you are talking about a brutal escalation into a full insurrection and while the technology and wealth will be on one side, the last 15 years in the middle east has shown what committed people with pickups and AK's can do against an on-paper massively superior opponent.

I just hope the super wealthy are smart enough to see this coming and avoid it, it would be spectacularly brutal.

Or nobody will ever have to work again.

Bullshit.

It's a nice dream, but the idea of AI and robots doing dishes, picking strawberries, washing cars, cooking meals will never happen.

The best AI cannot beat a population of Mexicans who are basically the glue that holds out modern society together.

If you wanted to see how the U.S. Will completely come to a screeching halt, it would be if the rapture took place and only claimed all Mexicans.

Our entire way of life depends on them. AI will never replace them.

Once our entire agricultural system (here in the UK) was dependent on manual farm labourers, now we grow 60% of the calories we consume with 1.6% of the workforce.

> It's a nice dream, but the idea of AI and robots doing dishes, picking strawberries, washing cars, cooking meals will never happen.

If something can be automated at a lower cost than paying wages it eventually will be, automation is coming (arguably has been here since the industrial revolution) and it's not stopped yet.

http://www.foodchainsfilm.com/

Watch this - and tell me whats cheaper, robots or mexican slaves.

In a word, yes.

"Jobs" are not an end in themselves, and are decreasingly relevant in the information age.

Is this less impressive to you because he didn't 'create jobs'?

Self-funding this experiment is probably harder than creating 100 jobs.

I think his/her point is that just because the usual suspects aren't backing this venture, there's lot of negativity about the project here on HN.

Like Palmer Luckey of Oculus VR, I hope G Hotz has a similar story to tell at the end of it all.

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