How are you feeling? I feel like layoffs are just the tip of the iceberg, and in this economy, time is running out for humanity.
For the past three years, I’ve written about self-improvement, relationships, and spirituality for a media organization that receives tens of millions of website clicks every month. The problem is, an AI can write articles faster and cheaper than my mere human thinking and creativity can, and can cleverly feed information to Google’s algorithms.
About a year ago, we switched most of our writers to AI-assisted. In this role, writers worked with AI to write hybrid articles. The style of the articles has since changed. They are now more concise, clickbait-y, and algorithmic-leaning, rather than in-depth and investigative.
There’s no doubt about it: technology has brought many benefits, and we can’t turn back time. But we can raise our awareness. We can build relationships and work opportunities that can withstand the digital onslaught.
The rise of killer robots and giant AI systems that control us all may seem more like a Hollywood script than reality, at least for now. It may even seem inevitable to those who truly expect Terminators to roam the streets of America and start exploding one day. Whether you dismiss it as fantasy or embrace it as an inevitable Black Pill, either option underestimates how much disruption AI is rapidly wreaking at a fundamental level on the economy.
Machine learning is already taking lives in the country, but it’s mostly at the occupational and income levels. For opioid-addicted middle-class Midwesterners, the elderly, and those stuck in the gig economy hamster wheel, the impact has been somewhat muted so far, but the end result of widespread AI is clear. The eventual prospect of a population dependent on government assistance or universal basic income is decidedly dystopian, even if accompanied by secular anthems like “Imagine” about “no possessions” and the “brotherhood of man.” One man’s “brotherhood” is another man’s tyrannical regime.
With the unbridled advancement of AI across industries, the possibility of widespread techno-feudalism becomes more likely every day. Without the ability to generate revenue from private enterprise, government control becomes near-absolute. A cynical, streamlined technocracy is not a futuristic science fiction scenario. It’s an everyday reality that is intensifying by the day.
In 2016, AI products and services generated approximately $644 million in revenue worldwide. By this year, the AI market is expected to grow to $184 billion and exceed $820 billion by 2030. According to AI researcher and consultant Gil Press, approximately 36 million jobs in the United States could be affected by AI.
“High exposure” AI and its replacements will continue to grow over the next few decades.
In video games in 2018 Detroit: Become Human, Developed by Quantic Dream, the game puts players through life in a future where AI-enabled cyborgs have become commonplace in the professional and personal lives of ordinary citizens. The choices players make throughout the game will lead to 85 different outcomes. The story follows cyborgs as they gain self-awareness and begin to fight for their rights, in an awkward parallel to the US civil rights movement.
“It’s a grim, dark, future version of Detroit, where Android is so prevalent that it’s being sold in chain stores for the price of a bargain phone.”
write Lucy O’Brien.
“Small details from the sidelines, like a basement full of discarded models and street performers advertising themselves as playing ‘human music,’ tell the story of the tech bubble bursting.”
But while the game depicts a future in which AI is sold to society as a way to make ordinary people’s lives easier and staff ordinary professions (including police work), the reality seems less incremental. AI will just start running more and more industries and professions from the top down. What started as an AI-run logistics system for truck drivers will one day become AI-driven trucks. What started as AI-written website content will one day become a fully AI-run website. As more tasks are delegated to AI, it’s inevitable that we’ll have to go back further and further to find the human links in the chain.
As a recruitment agency operated by Unnan AI
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In a recent development that has sent ripples through the technology industry, two giants, Google and Tesla, have made headlines by deciding to lay off more employees. The move comes at a critical time when both companies are aggressively investing in artificial intelligence (AI) and signals a major shift in their operational and strategic priorities. While the layoffs come as a surprise to many, they can be seen as part of a broader restructuring within the technology industry, which is increasingly looking to AI as the next frontier of innovation and competition.
Ironically, the very industries that are putting writers like me out of work are themselves cutting back on their own work to adapt to a new, artificially created environment. The new world is changing fast, and the digital egregore is adapting quickly to a brave new world of mechanized content.
That is what machine learning is all about. And make no mistake, machines
teeth Learning. Our actions and behaviors, online and offline, are a digital blessing to them. They feed on it and become smarter, more agile, more informed, and richer. Subtle. Even gaps and dead zones in input provide information about information deficiencies. It’s not a question of machines and AI taking control of everything, it’s more that machines and AI are taking control. Almost everything The difference becomes almost negligible.
There’s no doubt about it: technology has brought many benefits, and we can’t turn back time. But we can raise our consciousness. We can build relationships and work opportunities that can withstand the digital onslaught. We can refuse to put a price on the human soul.
Humans are forever It was the last great mission of mankind.
