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Re:Should economists be more concerned about AI? by monk_e_boy on Wednesday March 01, 2017 @08:18PM (#13770516)
A small thought. When AI gets good-ish then would it work sort of like this:

You go to a supermarket and ask it where the beans are, it tells you. It reminds you to pick up toothpaste. You go to the checkout, but to the AI enabled one because the AI is nice and chatty and asks how your day was.

You pop into mcdonalds and the AI greets you, asks you what you'd like to eat (I imagine it will be on a screen as you walk in)... questions - am I talking to mcdonalds AI, or will my personal AI follow me into the store? How will my personal AI interact with mcdonalds - via APIs or something?

Or will each store have its own AI, so if I pop to Tesco then Tesco AI will talk to me.

I find it weird that on android I have one AI, on my desktop I have Cortana and Google/Chrome, on my iPad it's Siri... I don't want to be interacting with a thousand as I show and game and browse the internet. I want one that follows me around.

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Re:Should economists be more concerned about AI? by Xuebit on Wednesday March 01, 2017 @09:20PM (#13770870)
I have lurked here for a long time but never felt intelligent enough or had anything worthy to contribute, until now.

When the article mentions AI (Or any other article/discussion), I don't think it means robots that walk around and greet/interact with you like in iRobot, I would say it means self-serve checkouts, like the ones already in Tescos or McDonalds[1]; or Automated cars/trucks that don't have a need for human interaction[2].

I think that is where the confusion lies with AI, it might not necessarily mean a physical entity.

[1]https://i0.wp.com/www.styledemocracy.com/wp-content/uploads/...

[2]https://www.axios.com/heres-where-jobs-will-be-lost-when-rob...

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Re:Should economists be more concerned about AI? by ThomPete on Wednesday March 01, 2017 @08:29PM (#13770589)
I am pretty sure we will see a move to nationalize basic production. If you think about it it actually make sense as there is no more competitive advantage to be had if the entire ecosystem is automated.
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Re:Should economists be more concerned about AI? by WillPostForFood on Thursday March 02, 2017 @12:18AM (#13771619)
Automation doesn't mean no competitive advantage.
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Re:Should economists be more concerned about AI? by ThomPete on Thursday March 02, 2017 @08:00AM (#13773700)
Full automation do.
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Re:Should economists be more concerned about AI? by oh_sigh on Wednesday March 01, 2017 @08:39PM (#13770653)
Why would you need AI for any of those scenarios you mentioned? I agree about your last point though.
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