You can’t automate the consumer

[Tribal Outkast]

I think they’re on some we’ll figure it out as we go type shyt. I mean apartments, houses, and businesses are still being built so they are expecting people to work out here… How will they fill these places???

 

[bnew]

I agree

And on top of that, there’s no guarantee the service will work due to some sort of human error (there is always human error) or due to consumers probably not wanting AI services for EVERYTHING.

Eventually, human competition will probably still exist just for the simple fact that everything has a drawback and some consumers might not accept the drawbacks of AI services…


Speaking of drawbacks, what does anyone think those might be? (And not the supposed workforce/labor drawback either)

what do you think the drawbacks will look like?

 

[StretfordRed]

I tthink we may return to Rome. The primary buyers of goods back then were Rich nobles and the government itself. The general public just lived on handouts from the government as urban poor. This was due to slavery, which is a direct parallel to the utility AI brings to the wealthy corporations.

Spoiler: how rome used slaves similarly to AI

In Rome, slavery basically made the general public irrelevant in society. The biggest buyers of items ended up being other rich people with their own company of enslaved people producing wealth for themselves. So one noble would have a vineyard operated entirely by slaves. Another noble would have a quarry for marble operated entirely by slaves. If one of them wanted wine, and the other one wanted some new pillars for their mannor home, they would trade. Joe Maximus schmoe , the peasant, was completely cut out from these transactions. And the government itself would tax the rich people and do business with them.

Spoiler: Future Analogy to Rome

In a modern sense, the future governments would give out cheese to the public to keep them from revolting. And gov will tax The billionaires and Icorporations while also subcontracting to them to get stuff like Amazon web services. The billionaires in turn would trade with each other, whether they want fancy cars, fancy software, or more productivity equipment for their slave labor (AI)

I suspect that most of the trade in the future will be B2B, not B2C like it is these days. I say this because different automation companies must specialize. Open AI will be specializing in automating speech, but they'll need another corporation specializing in automating construction work or automating network infrastructure in order to keep growing. Similarly a corporation that automates agriculture, would need another corporation to automate its accounting. So a lot of B2B AI transactions will occur

I suspect the challenge for the few of us still living in the free world before AI does everything, willl have the task of acquiring enough wealth to have our own automation and our own land so that we don't become one of the many peasants in New Rome living on a handouts.

Computed Communism.

 

[Eternally Jaded]

I agree

And on top of that, there’s no guarantee the service will work due to some sort of human error (there is always human error) or due to consumers probably not wanting AI services for EVERYTHING.

Eventually, human competition will probably still exist just for the simple fact that everything has a drawback and some consumers might not accept the drawbacks of AI services…


Speaking of drawbacks, what does anyone think those might be? (And not the supposed workforce/labor drawback either)

I'd agree with you, if automated services didn't exist already, which people relentlessly complain about yet still use daily.

People will rant your ear off about how all bank/credit card services are automated nowadays, and the impossibility of actually speaking to another human when a problem comes up, yet there's basically no alternatives to take your money to, so they stay stuck in misery and keep those same banks/credit services.

The biggest issue nowadays is that once tech reaches a certain point, everyone uses it and it closes an avenue that was once viable, because retaining the archaic becomes expensive.

 

[///Vega+++]

I guess the endgame is population control and clear boundaries between the economic classes
Rulers and ruled basically
Democracy and capitalism isn't exactly a match made in heaven you know