ChatGPT and its ilk are essentially a pattern matching engine. AI experts are all very excited when AI passes psychometric tests that involve pattern matching better than humans, for instance theory of mind tests that involve pictures of human faces. While impressive as a technical feat it means nothing ultimately. These psychometric tests are highly artificial and the correct answer is ambiguous to a human since there are subjective factors in deciding the “correct” answer. Tests that involve subjectivity are standardized using mathematical rules so that they appear to be consistent compared to other tests. Any human, who by nature of being human falls prey to subjective judgement, can never be as good as an AI that simply pattern matches standardized questions to standardized answers. The fact AI can get perfect or near perfect scores on standardized psychometric tests that involve subjective judgement prove it’s simply brute force computing vs intelligence. AlphaGo can beat Go masters but fails when its opponent is a niaive Go player. AlphaGo is not playing Go, it’s manipulating numbers. AI is totally fake and gay. Fortunately for the all the people who have thrown money at AI, government regulation and subsidy will save it and entrench the position of AI in society. Your pension fund will stagger along a little longer.
Idiocracy
The modern world depends on a handful of engineers (maybe even on just one guy) who works for Zeiss in Germany and can make the mirrors for the EUV lithography machines that a handful of engineers (maybe just one guy) at ASML in Holland make. None of the “highly skilled” employed in tech jobs are necessary if TSMC can’t make the chips and there’s probably only a handful of engineers at TSMC who are the key points of failure. Intelligence is plummeting across the developed world and it wasn’t much above room temperature anywhere else anyway.
It’s clear a population crash is imminent. So-called civilization is held together with baler twine and electrical tape. The bloviating of the WEF Nazis about technology fixing things is pie in the sky. The WEF are the equivalent of Nero fiddling while Rome burns they’re all mad as hatters. As for mad, walk into a Walmart and look around then tell me genpop aren’t escapees from the insane asylum dazed and confused by the medication and mind control.
We were privileged to see the world at the height of human progress. Hang on to your tinfoil hats it’s a bumpy ride all the way down from here.
I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid you can’t do that.
The hype around AI and “the imminent singularity” at the moment is hilarious. Another pump and dump tech bubble waiting to burst. All this talk about AI leading to jobs losses is cover for the corporations shedding their useless eaters. The coof lock downs debacle proved white collar workers are simply shoveling BS through a computer in between sessions on Facetube and pR0Nhub. What little they do that actually matters to getting real things done can easily be replaced by automation. Blue collar workers, on the other hand, can rest assured AI isn’t going to lift the burden from their shoulders. Mexican day labourers are still going to be nailing Chinese drywall to your studs, digging drains, clearing the faeces and vomit in old peoples’ homes, making the beds in hotels, etc. You may amuse yourself talking to the silicon faced “receptionist” in the hotel and getting frustrated that it’s like going through an automated phone system only a lot more creepy.
Self driving cars except as a stunt in areas with the correct (expensive) supporting infrastructure are a pipe dream. Humanoid robots are a nonsense, ASIMO was around for decades and Honda never successfully monetized it. Robots and AI can’t handle the real world the way even a dog can. You’ll notice guide dogs and drugs dogs are showing no signs of going away. It’s all fake and gay.
This won’t effect government employment of course, expect a continued growth in the number of “public service workers” most particularly in “compliance officers” and the like (87,000 added IRS officers, climate restriction enforcers, etc.). The AI revolution will have the “unfortunate” side effect of driving wages down even for essential blue collar workers due to systemic unemployment.
What the AI revolution presages, in fact, is a new age of serfdom: thanks to vastly expanded computer processing power globalist parasites will be able to track your every move and automatically punish your undesirable (to them) behaviour from cradle to grave. Welcome to the machine.
Back to the Future
As a youth I worked as a brewer’s drayman assistant and more than one driver lamented the days of the horse being past. It had been common practice to throw the unconscious drunken drayman on the cart and let the horse find its way back to the yard. Instead they had to drive a 4 ton truck while drunk. So if full self driving trucks make a come back then congratulations, you’ve successfully replicated the technology of the horse and cart.