Of horses, mice and the AI generation

TechScape: Want to know how AI will affect government and politics? The bots have the answers https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/jul/16/want-to-know-how-ai-will-affect-government-and-politics-the-bots-have-the-answers?CMP=share_btn_url

People aren’t horses ^{[citation needed]}. It seems implausible that AI technology will ever be able to do absolutely everything a human can do, because some of what a human can do is be a human, an inconveniently circular claim but an important one. Horses still run in horse races, because if you replace a horse with a car it’s not a horse race ^{[citation needed]}; people will still provide those services which, for whatever reason, people want people to provid …

As a result, lots of people like to think not about jobs, but about “tasks”. Take a job, define it in terms of the tasks it involves, and ask whether an AI can do those. That way, you identify a few that are at risk of complete cannibalisation, a few that are perfectly safe and a large middle that is going to be “affected” by AI, however that shakes out.

It’s worth flagging the obvious: that approach is mechanically going to result in a large number for jobs “affected” and a small number for jobs “destroyed”. (Even the most AI-impacted job likely has some tasks that AI finds hard.) …

I wonder where that citation is, who wrote it? Because that reads adagely familiar to something I wrote in none other than the book I must finish this year so everyone who seeks to read can have access to ityesterday–Bami&the Time Weavers (The things one can achieve in anxiety ridden suffering scopes). Oh how extremely unintelligent humans get on horses, running around headless fools and say they are human. How degenerate? Let me say it like this; I seek complete scientific decimation of that conception. AI is turning out to be a great teacher in the arts and science of the humanities. I’m glad I’m here for it(unravelling discovery and relativity)for the next generation. To support my effort please support the free books for life cause.