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Because the AI that can barely match the cognitive power of a human brain running on a cup of coffee and some calories doesn't sleep, eat, get sick, go on maternity/paternity leave, go on strike, want to be paid, want their pay to increase with the cost of living, or have pesky human rights that limit the value you can extract from them.

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This is increasingly reminding me of those dystopian science fiction films.

Would you say the same of any automated or mechanised process that massively reduces necessary human input for the above reasons?

That is honestly how I actually see these things being used now, they can be powerful tools if used effectively.

The thought of people being replaced wholesale though…

Tractors and combine harvesters replaced humans wholesale. Would you rather we go back to a world where all farming must be done by humans manually operating equipment? Countless advancements in manufacturing replaced humans wholesale in factories. Should we undo that?

I don’t think you understand. Can we create a computer the size of a bee’s brain and with the same intelligence and energy requirements? If we can’t, then I don’t think we’ll ever truly achieve an efficient general intelligence.

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