Raw LLM Responses

Neil wanted to sound naive and he succeeded. The core difference between AI--let alone AGI--and automobiles is that automobiles don't replace the human labor. Instead they change what it looks like. Carriage wheels became tires. Horses became horsepower. Feed became fuel. Vets became mechanics. At the end of the day, while it looks different, it is fundamentally the same. Moreso, to a limited degree, automobiles also expanded who was qualified to serve roles within the sectors surrounding transportation since it takes less advanced (though by no means insignificant) knowledge to be a mechanic compared to being a vet. Instead of needing to be a carpenter or woodworker, you just had to work an assembly line. Instead of having to know what feed was healthy for a given horse's dietary needs, you merely needed to be able to man a gas pump. To do a job and--more importantly--to do it well, you now had a lower barrier to entry while also being able to earn as much if not more compared to your competitors in the more established fields. But what about AI (and by extension AGI)? Well, we DON'T see it creating new jobs and we don't see it lowering the barriers to entry for jobs. It's not like it's just a different toolset that once you learn is actually easier than before. The entire point of using AI--as anybody who has experience with it both prior to and following ChatGPT can tell you--is to handle the tasks humans either can't do or that take lots of time to do. AI generated art is a great example of this... Animation companies have been using AI for in-between frames for a LONG time. AI takes the two frames and then just finds the middle points as needed then the animator cleans the result up... But as AI became more prominent, what we saw wasn't in-between animators moving to other animation jobs... we instead saw the budgets being allocated to animation teams decreasing since there was less need for humans to perform their labor. We saw a ballooning of unemployed--and underemployed--animators despite animation being larger and more influential on a global scale than ever before. That isn't the jobs moving elsewhere... that's just jobs collapsing. And the issue is that as AI becomes more and more prolific, the need to have actual humans performing labor is becoming lower since you can now just use a prompt to have the labor performed. Think about it... why would you go to a Starbucks to get a coffee when you can spend $250 for a ChatGPT coffee maker and have it give you the exact same service on-demand at a fraction of the cost per cup AND it can get your name right when it tells you that your coffee is ready? Maybe all that is stopping you is that initial $250 investment... So, let me ask this... What's stopping Starbucks from replacing all of their staff except for the singular human "manager" (to clean things, load the beans into the brewers, and assist with any mistakes or issues) with self-serve ChatGPT kiosks that make your coffee for you? "People prefer people"? Nonsense. At the end of the day, you want a good or service and are there for that good or service. Human or machine is entirely irrelevant. After all... you still go to the grocery store during the days and times when it's self-service only, don't you? It all goes back to the "is it 'nuclear power' or 'nuclear weapon'?" question. Nuclear power is just an alternative source of power. It can be used as a weapon by those ill-fit to wield power but it is not inherently meant to destroy anything. Automobiles are an alternative means of transportation. They aren't designed to remove jobs. They are designed to change how we live and what jobs need to be done. AI is different. For AI, removing tasks means lower-level jobs get removed and the jobs that remain become increasingly dependent on knowing how AI works as well as how they are built. Entry level jobs will slowly become more reliant on advanced education whereas you used to be able to get your foot in the door to a good career opportunity with just a high school diploma. And AI is going to keep continuing to perform this job filtering effect. More and more jobs are going to just disappear because they will wholly stop being of any value because we can just have AI do it. And as more jobs vanish, more jobs will be line up for the chopping block to the point that the only thing that can stop the progression is, quite literally, reaching the jobs that AI just is not capable of replacing OR humans refusing to let jobs be taken OR humans deciding that since AI is handling so many of our jobs, human labor should be seen as an optional resource provided voluntarily for personal/cultural/societal enrichment rather than as a matter of survival and therefore all needs should be provided for free. And if none of those options happen, modern humanity will cease to be. That isn't to say we will go extinct... but our societies all around the world will collapse because we'll no longer have the foundation pillars of society we need to keep us afloat as we have become accustomed.