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Re:OpenAI O3 breakthrough high score on ARC-AGI-PUB by chairmansteve on Friday December 20, 2024 @10:32PM (#42477333)
Think of AI as an excavator. You know, those machines that dig holes. 70 years ago, those holes would have been dug by 50 men with shovels. Now it's one guy in an excavator. But we don't have mass unemployment. The excavator just creates more work for bricklayers, carpenters etc.

If AI lives up to hype, you could be the excavator driver. Or, the AI will create a ton of upstream and downstream work. There will be no mass unemployment.

Re:OpenAI O3 breakthrough high score on ARC-AGI-PUB by euvin on Friday December 20, 2024 @10:34PM (#42477348)
If AGI is the excavator, why wouldn't it become the driver, bricklayer, and carpenter as well?
Re:OpenAI O3 breakthrough high score on ARC-AGI-PUB by throwaway2037 on Saturday December 21, 2024 @02:27AM (#42478053)
Jokes aside, I think building a useful, strong, agile humanoid robot that is affordable for businesses (first), then middle class homes will prove much harder than AGI.
Re:OpenAI O3 breakthrough high score on ARC-AGI-PUB by zmgsabst on Friday December 20, 2024 @11:07PM (#42477483)
Horses never recovered from mechanization.
Re:OpenAI O3 breakthrough high score on ARC-AGI-PUB by postsantum on Friday December 20, 2024 @11:42PM (#42477594)
They have been promoted to pets. Oh wait..
Re:OpenAI O3 breakthrough high score on ARC-AGI-PUB by chairmansteve on Saturday December 21, 2024 @01:10AM (#42477838)
True, but humans did. Horses were the machine that became obsolete. Just like the guys with shovels.
Re:OpenAI O3 breakthrough high score on ARC-AGI-PUB by realce on Friday December 20, 2024 @10:37PM (#42477368)
Is there any possible technology that could make labor, mastery, or human expirence obsolete?

Are there no limits to this argument? Is it some absolute universal law that all new creations just create increasing economic opportunities?