Re:Economic Growth Given Machine Intelligence [pdf, 1998]
by arethuza on Monday February 07, 2011 @08:25AM
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I believe that we will be able to build artificially intelligent general intelligences, I'd be surprised if this happens in my lifetime, but I do believe it will happen at some point. If it does I suspect the possible outcomes are:
- Good - we end up with a society that looks like a low tech version of the Culture with AIs and humans co-existing
- Bad - See The Second Renaissance from the Animatrix
- Weird - Economics 2.0 from Accelerando
I think at this moment in time I'd probably go with "Weird" as my estimate of the most likely outcome!
Re:Economic Growth Given Machine Intelligence [pdf, 1998]
by nickpinkston on Monday February 07, 2011 @08:24AM
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TL;DR: Computers are complimentary and competitive with human intelligence - hence wages. Initially, computers increase wages by increasing productivity, but later as computers fully replace many in the labor market - wages fall dramatically due to essentially Moore's Law.
- Good - we end up with a society that looks like a low tech version of the Culture with AIs and humans co-existing
- Bad - See The Second Renaissance from the Animatrix
- Weird - Economics 2.0 from Accelerando
I think at this moment in time I'd probably go with "Weird" as my estimate of the most likely outcome!