Raw LLM Responses

Bill is usually nuanced in his explanations but his explanations went downhill after explaining the spectrum of ideas based on how experts define AGI. He's kind of throwing his hands up in the air even though his arms are crossed ( maybe its cold in the studio? ) you don't even need to have 'general' intelligence to replace people; just define the work they do as a general workflow and use AI to define the pieces of it as a series of modules like plumbing pieces. I'm just playing devil's advocate because I'd like to lay out the actual way to do this without letting emotions get involved as a hypothetical to determine just what kind of danger everyone is in. IF you are doing something repetitive that doesn't require nuanced understanding your job was already ripe for automation. Just look at the cashiers post covid; the only reason they weren't automated away anyway was because it was cheaper for humans to do it. I like my grocery store cashier ladies but if the business was to stay afloat drastic measures had to happen and they cut the staff in half. Now you have 1 person overseeing multiple self-checkout lines. Whether you're doing repetitive work or not, employers are only hiring you because of what you're doing for them. And don't give me that self righteous bs about it not being fair; you're only going to work to deliver a service / good so you can get paid. It's a transaction and if it's good for both parties then you continue to work. The advice I have for every person is the same regardless of how great AI becomes and it's the advice I will give to my 2 kids. Learn something valuable. You are paid market rate based on how valuable other people see your work. Any monkey can be trained to be take other people's money and take abuse from rude people ( I've been a cashier and a waiter many many times ). That's why it pays so bad, you ARE expendable and you know it. But if you have a skill that isn't easy to get ( like being a construction worker, dentist, or expert musician, architect, structural engineer, artisan, doctor, plumber ) then your work is more valuable. It's the rarity in your skill that determines your wage and how necessary your skillset is to others. When blockbuster went out of business or when we didn't buy cd's anymore we didn't have a problem with it because it was understood that individual people would figure out how to adjust and adapt. The enormous problem with AI is that it's able to hit EVERY industry and you have a president who thinks that AI must be de-regulated so that on the macro scale USA > China but that's shortsighted. If you allow businesses to do as they please the domestic situation will absolutely implode in a matter of years. AI will be THE #1 issue in the 2028 election. I don't think Andrew Yang has a snowball's chance in hell of winning the democratic nomination but considering the issue he centered his entire campaign on is staring at us in the face he's going to do a lot better.