Re:Building AI
by random_upvoter on Wednesday January 27, 2016 @12:50PM
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> Large swaths of the population unemployable though... That's a real issue.
IMO the one job that is most threatened by future progress in AI is the job of software developer.
As for the menial jobs, of course nobody cares whether a human or a machine mows your grass. But I do think that most people would rather be nursed by human being than a robot. I think there will be a big increase in care-giving jobs, which would be wonderful because the world is in dire need of care-givers.
Large swaths of the population unemployable though... That's a real issue.
A living wage is the only good solution I can think of. Alternatively, pay people to dig and fill holes, but it's expensive and kind of pointless to make up unskilled jobs for people to do.
I do wonder how much a living wage would cost in the US though. Shift some money from defense? There's a good job for AI: balance a budget based on pre-defined policy goals.