alt Hacker NewsAt least for me, personal agents have been quite useful. If you integrate them well - shopping, filling random government forms, keeping track of my personal life, optimizing training plan and nutrition, planning vacations, etc. I can do more home repairs or renovations myself with help of chat
So basically you get personal digital assistant - very useful - but not changing my life.
What would I need for real transformation though? Food, house cleaning, commute - "every day chores". Even if we had ASI tomorrow, what could it do to change my life, besides taking away my job? Design good house robot to help me with food preparation I guess... Maybe finally self driving cars launched in my area? Or it will take control, "optimize humanity survival chance" and realize we don't need as many people on this planet.
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Almost every time I use an AI chatbot it eventually turns out it's lying to me. I would not trust them with any of the things you mention.
Personal agents are wonderful! You can ask for hiking trails and it will customize one for you, frequently resulting in emergency calls for rescues! Your purchasing/selling AI will arrange sales for you but forget to tell you, leaving you in breach of contracts you didn't know about! Your personal nutrition agent will absorb all the broscience and customize a diet that will result in hair loss, but at least your in ketosis, amiright! And instead of hiring a plumber/electrician/contractor to do work subject to code, you can just ask an AI to tell you how to do it and then wonder why your buyer is suing you for $$$!
(Those are all examples from just the past 4 days, and just the ones that made it into mainstream media.)
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> besides taking away my job
> self driving cars launched in my area
It sounds like the transformation would be a massive collapse of the economy with scores of people unemployed.
> Or it will take control, "optimize humanity survival chance" and realize we don't need as many people on this planet.
Maybe, but more likely it will be the humans who control the AIs and hold the power who will make this decision.