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Originally Posted by qwerty68
I didn't falsely assure you. Look at what the robot actually did and ignore what the creator is saying it might be able to do in some future in his head.
You should note that the robot did nothing of value, said nothing it wasn't trained to. That thing isn't running a business much less holding down the simplest of jobs. That thing does nothing that obsoletes anything that humans do. NOT ONE THING
Of course, the guy believes he can do it within 20 years, he is searching for funding. The lifelike appearance is interesting, but he is far from the first person to do something like this. That thing is no more advanced than the chess playing computer and the racist chat AI program I told you about. The difference is the robotics and that, while interesting, doesn't replace people.
Lots of hype, no substance.
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And this, is rightly what I get for typing out my runaway emotions. Good god, I'm sorry.... that probably doesn't sound sincere at all but I panicked hard over this. I'd already been ruminating about my technophobia earlier today.
Did you watch the video too? "I hope to one day [do a bunch of stuff]". It occurred to me that that's just a line programmed for it to say, but the content embodies my own concerns. Will the future just be coexistence with sentient machines, or actually cutthroat competition as we cede all activities to them? People keep saying it's a matter of when, not if.
I feel insane worrying about this. I feel like I'm losing my mind. But some intuition tells me it's a big deal that I need to be on guard about.
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Besides, why do you place so much of your self-worth on your employment? That is really concerning to me.
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Not employment, but capacity to achieve and compare. If there's nothing to do, there's nothing to accomplish, and nothing to derive a sense of worth from. Similar if what you accomplish can be effortlessly outdone by a machine.
A nonemployment example would be creativity, like I talked about earlier in this thread. Why slave over mastering an artistic craft when a machine can master it in minutes of uploading then produce from a database works far superior to anything you could make on your own? There's no way to compete.
Also, I desperately need a job right now, and the possibility of there soon being nothing to pursue terrifies me. Like talk of this thing being used in healthcare - I've been considering studying to be a CMA, but if those jobs won't exist in a few years, why bother?
It feels like so many doors in life are being closed to me every day, either by the progression of society and technology, or revelations about my own abilities. That's where most of my stress comes from.