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Cobretti2 on 03 September 2017
Rab said:
SvennoJ said:
Why does a lawyer need to make some extra money on the side as an Uber driver? Are things that bad in the US?

Not sure in the US, but in Australia being a young lawyer is very difficult, unemployment is high for law, often just to secure a job if they are lucky they will need to work many years at menial tasks within a law firm at low pay

Lawyers have also expressed great concern about AI (which is already in use) that actually does the research work in routine cases that young lawyers use to do but the AI does it better, the future for lawyers in Australia at least is quite bleak

Go to singapore for a couple years as a young lawyer. Will grow quicker there, then come back. I knwo peopel who spent 4 years doign sweet F all in Aus and in 3 years become lawyers and head of legal team in some cases.



 

 

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NintendoPie on 03 September 2017

Cops sometimes tend to believe they're above the law? Color me surprised.



monocle_layton on 03 September 2017
Cobretti2 said:
SvennoJ said:

Society is changing all the time. We do all our payments and other things online now, go to the store, check the computer which aisle to find the item, go through the self checkout, zero human interaction. Menial tasks get automated all the time, I guess research is next with AI.

Meanwhile instead of simply showing up at the airport with your passport, nowadays you start by checking in online, printing your own boarding pass, check in at a machine at the airport, put the labels on your bags yourself, drop them off at a bagage belt, then scan your own passport, take your picture at a machine and fill out a questionaire when coming back and drop off the printout at a customs officer. It's funny how customers put up with 'automation' which in the end just transfers all the work to them. Automation my ass.

Anyway, who is going to check the results from the AI research, and who is going to make all the relevant info accesible for AI. Different work. Sometimes I wonder if we're not creating more work when I'm on the phone with tech support and they can't figure out how to fix simple things in their automated systems.

sex dolls will replace women too soon. i read some article last month that a brothel had more bookings with the doll then the real thing lol.

What's the point of sex without the connection with another person?



AngryLittleAlchemist on 03 September 2017
monocle_layton said:
Cobretti2 said:

sex dolls will replace women too soon. i read some article last month that a brothel had more bookings with the doll then the real thing lol.

What's the point of sex without the connection with another person?

Ejaculation?



nanarchy on 03 September 2017
Rab said:
SvennoJ said:

Perhaps Better call Saul isn't that unrealistic after all :)
I guess they'll have double bad luck once self driving cars take over. Johny cab incoming!

Society will have to change completely with the rise of AI, it will soon affect all of us, the young more so

Society is always rapidly changing and every generation has a different set of challenges to overcome due to technology and innovation, has been this way since man first banged two rocks together to make fire. AI is no different.



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Rab on 04 September 2017
nanarchy said:
Rab said:

Society will have to change completely with the rise of AI, it will soon affect all of us, the young more so

Society is always rapidly changing and every generation has a different set of challenges to overcome due to technology and innovation, has been this way since man first banged two rocks together to make fire. AI is no different.

This difference is the pace of change, when we banged two rocks together it took another 2 million years to make a spear

The pace of change is the fastest it has ever been, this can be incredibly stressful, and it will go faster, AI will tend to push it even faster, people will start competing with the AI’s pace of development, I think humans will lose that race eventually, jobs for all or even most will disappear



VGPolyglot on 04 September 2017
Rab said:
nanarchy said:

Society is always rapidly changing and every generation has a different set of challenges to overcome due to technology and innovation, has been this way since man first banged two rocks together to make fire. AI is no different.

This difference is the pace of change, when we banged two rocks together it took another 2 million years to make a spear

The pace of change is the fastest it has ever been, this can be incredibly stressful, and it will go faster, AI will tend to push it even faster, people will start competing with the AI’s pace of development, I think humans will lose that race eventually, jobs for all or even most will disappear

You know that something's fucked up in our society when robots working for us and doing our jobs for us is considered to be a negative.



nanarchy on 04 September 2017
Rab said:
nanarchy said:

Society is always rapidly changing and every generation has a different set of challenges to overcome due to technology and innovation, has been this way since man first banged two rocks together to make fire. AI is no different.

This difference is the pace of change, when we banged two rocks together it took another 2 million years to make a spear

The pace of change is the fastest it has ever been, this can be incredibly stressful, and it will go faster, AI will tend to push it even faster, people will start competing with the AI’s pace of development, I think humans will lose that race eventually, jobs for all or even most will disappear

tell that to the generation when the car arrived, or the generation when electricy arrived, or the generation when industrialization took off or when globalisation kicked in or my generation where computers started. Every generation thinks their situation is harder or special, the reality is if anything this change is actually far slower than some of the major upheavals in just the last century or so alone, AI has been a slow advancing beast for the last 20 or 30 years. I did my honours in AI way back in the early 90's and while it has come a long way since then it has been a very slow crawl compared to other advancements and still has a long way to go.



Rab on 04 September 2017
nanarchy said:
Rab said:

This difference is the pace of change, when we banged two rocks together it took another 2 million years to make a spear

The pace of change is the fastest it has ever been, this can be incredibly stressful, and it will go faster, AI will tend to push it even faster, people will start competing with the AI’s pace of development, I think humans will lose that race eventually, jobs for all or even most will disappear

tell that to the generation when the car arrived, or the generation when electricy arrived, or the generation when industrialization took off or when globalisation kicked in or my generation where computers started. Every generation thinks their situation is harder or special, the reality is if anything this change is actually far slower than some of the major upheavals in just the last century or so alone, AI has been a slow advancing beast for the last 20 or 30 years. I did my honours in AI way back in the early 90's and while it has come a long way since then it has been a very slow crawl compared to other advancements and still has a long way to go.

"Pace"

All that change you mentioned only happened over the last 100 years, before 1800's pace of tech was much slower, and the further back you go even slower still, now moving forward, it’s getting faster, the pace of change in a last 100 years we are seeing that in 10 years, we can’t stop it but it will put more pressure on people than ever before, you won’t have long to wait to see it :p   



Rab on 04 September 2017
VGPolyglot said:
Rab said:

This difference is the pace of change, when we banged two rocks together it took another 2 million years to make a spear

The pace of change is the fastest it has ever been, this can be incredibly stressful, and it will go faster, AI will tend to push it even faster, people will start competing with the AI’s pace of development, I think humans will lose that race eventually, jobs for all or even most will disappear

You know that something's fucked up in our society when robots working for us and doing our jobs for us is considered to be a negative.

It could be a good thing, but as society is structured now it won’t, due to the speed of change many if not all will soon need to evaluate how they or their children survive economically 

How do we use money to buy stuff when almost all of us have no jobs, how do business earn money to stay viable? A complete rethink on your society will be required and soon