I think you summed a very good point somewhere near the start when you said something about "societal issues". If AI takes over we will have anarchy or something close. People need purpose, you have expanding populations and if you have no jobs for them, they will throw themselves on the state, the state will have no money, the corps will not compensate for the jobs they've destroyed. They will have no customers as with no workers to earn/pump money around then modern world begins to collapse.
So no one can afford to make AI ubiquitous yet, it will lead to a rapid breakdown of society and the rich can hide but in any revolution they're the first against the wall.
As techies we will do what we alwasy have, we will just adapt to the new tech as demaneded by our paymasters. Youngsters always want to scream ahead of the old farts like me, they will learn quickly that in the real world in serious enterprise that "glacial" is the only word to describe the tech pace! 30+ years working in tech now in the finance industry, it's sloooooow. My current shop only just started coding React and using microservices around 2 years ago and the is 25 years old. We trade with companies still heavily reliant on IBM mainframes as they're bolting on adaptation like crazy to keep them attached to the modern world.
The whole tech industry might look shiny to the "normies" but we all know it's held together by blu-tack and sticky tape!
I think you summed a very good point somewhere near the start when you said something about "societal issues". If AI takes over we will have anarchy or something close. People need purpose, you have expanding populations and if you have no jobs for them, they will throw themselves on the state, the state will have no money, the corps will not compensate for the jobs they've destroyed. They will have no customers as with no workers to earn/pump money around then modern world begins to collapse.
So no one can afford to make AI ubiquitous yet, it will lead to a rapid breakdown of society and the rich can hide but in any revolution they're the first against the wall.
As techies we will do what we alwasy have, we will just adapt to the new tech as demaneded by our paymasters. Youngsters always want to scream ahead of the old farts like me, they will learn quickly that in the real world in serious enterprise that "glacial" is the only word to describe the tech pace! 30+ years working in tech now in the finance industry, it's sloooooow. My current shop only just started coding React and using microservices around 2 years ago and the is 25 years old. We trade with companies still heavily reliant on IBM mainframes as they're bolting on adaptation like crazy to keep them attached to the modern world.
The whole tech industry might look shiny to the "normies" but we all know it's held together by blu-tack and sticky tape!
I like your reply.
It seems that it's always the "ISMS" as in Capitalism or Socialism.
Man cannot help itself as it lives and dies like all things.
So what is the "A.I.-ism" of things right?