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[-] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 weeks ago

The moment AGI is achieved it’s going to be a glorious destruction of society.

Specifically, if ultra affordable AGI that also happens to be acceptably reliable.

Which is certainly a pipe dream, today. It might or might not ever get any more possible.

To be economically viable, AGI needs to cost less than the people it supposedly replaces. Sure, we can all think of a couple of over-priced Word document slingers.

But ask someone who wanted to buy a conveyor belt or a barcode scanner for a factory in an emerging market...until the technology costs dramatically less than local seasoned professionals, the technology just doesn't get bought.

Now, I do imagine there's a few specific use cases that billionaires are very interested in replacing humans - because humans as morally empty and worthless as Epstein and Thompson (rest in piss) may actually be hard to find.

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