Re:Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter
by nice_byte on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @05:40PM
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i didn't say it would get abolished, more like wither away. here's a possible path to it:
1) school program getting progressively dumbed down;
2) fewer and fewer people choosing to continue education after school.
continuing education is mostly necessary to become specialized and perform knowledge work, it would be a waste of time to do so with emergence of a.i. agents capable of performing these functions even at a level _comparable_ to humans (let alone exceeding).
repeat this for a few decades and you have a new dark age.
1) school program getting progressively dumbed down; 2) fewer and fewer people choosing to continue education after school.
continuing education is mostly necessary to become specialized and perform knowledge work, it would be a waste of time to do so with emergence of a.i. agents capable of performing these functions even at a level _comparable_ to humans (let alone exceeding).
repeat this for a few decades and you have a new dark age.