The Appocalypse

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There will be no red-eyed metal skeletons marching over a field of human skulls. No machine intelligence will announce that it has become self-aware and decided to remove us from the equation.

The system most likely to take control of your life will not threaten you.

It will offer to help.

I agree and I think modern governments have already built the framework for AI to silently slip right into this role once it reaches a critical point.

Reminds me of organized region and a few other institutions too…

I’ve come to appreciate that delivering software is not just having a few “10x developers”. One needs QA, marketing, field engineers, and other roles. It really is a group effort.

If 90% of the software engineers and QA were replaced by someone dispensing their intent to an AI, what’s the rest supposed to do?

In society, we have an entire ecosystem of unrelated professions that depend on each other.

A truly dystopian future would be everyone lazing around at home, living on UBI, watching AI-generated television and movies.

AI is not there yet, it makes mistakes, as humans do, are we so easily forgiving when an AI is doing mistakes like we do with humans? are the "blind trustees" right in believing every word AI tells them just because that model knows how to do something they don't (e.g. write software)? in reality, when you meet someone smarter than you, appreciation settles in, is that appreciation the same for an AI model?

> There will be no red-eyed metal skeletons marching over a field of human skulls

Looking at the recent changes in some of the active battlefields, I'm not so sure anymore. The question being who will control the red-eye metal skeletons...

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