AI is Big News Today

[Mike]

But nobody is doing much about Artificial Intelligence, companies
still have computers, even some that answer the phone.

Soon there will be little need for humans to work, computers will be
able to do most jobs, one report said, if you want to work at a job
where AI can't work, become a gardener.

If half or more of the working age people can't get work since
computers are doing what they did, how will people live, with
no income, you cannot rent or buy a house, you cannot buy
a car, you cannot buy food, nor will you be able to raise any
children, where will the money come from?

Governments need people to work in order to tax them, they
too need money, no tax, no government, when I think about
this, all I can imagine, is chaos and anarchy, a real time version
of "Mad Max", as seen in the films.

Unfortunately computer control makes machines run efficiently
and easier to do lots of things, so companies want to keep them,
they don't want to pay staff regularly, they pay once for the PC
with very little, future outlay!

This situation sadly is for the young to solve, we will be gone, over
here there are several demonstrations about what to stop doing,
saying etc., most of the people in these marches are unemployed,
living on benefits, so they won't know how to fix anything.

Any suggestions?

Mike.

 

[hollydolly]

Even the humble Lollipop person is likely to not exist soon...

Skoda the car manufacturer is developing and testing new technologies to quote : 'make roads safer for children, senior citizens and those with disabilities'.

This includes a robot that can escort people to cross safely and new LED displays mounted in its cars' grilles that show unique animations to tell people when it is - and isn't - okay to step out in front of drivers.

Robotic roadside assistant: This is the IPA2X, which is currently being tested as a means of improving road safety, especially at crossings

The robot, which is over two metres tall, looks like a mobile traffic light that makes its way to the middle of a pedestrian crossing.

Once it gets there, it will display a green light and pedestrians can cross.

The robot is constantly monitoring its surroundings, so it can detect that a car is approaching the crossing.

With sensors located two metres high, it is able to see over parked cars. It then heads out into the road when it sees it's safe to do so.

The robot displays both information for pedestrians and warnings for approaching cars – it shows approaching drivers a stop sign.

It also sends a warning to the car itself, which is displayed as an animation on the infotainment display.

Once the pedestrians have crossed the road, the robot goes back to the pavement.

The moment it reaches the kerb, the alert on the car's dashboard disappears and the driver can continue on their way.

Further developments of the robot will look to also provide audio warnings, the car maker said.

 

[Fyrefox]

At least artificial intelligence comes with unlimited Data, and I’ll take all of him that I can get!

 

[fuzzybuddy]

Some act as AI is the creature from the black lagoon, or something. AI is a sophisticated computer program. And yes, AI will eliminate some jobs, but AI will also create jobs. The transistor eliminated thousands and thousands of telephone operator jobs, but transistors created whole other industries. The automobile put thousands of blacksmiths and rein & carriage makers out of business, but created another vast industry.

 

[officerripley]

"I don't know, Dave; what do you think about it?"

 

[chic]

The population will be cut in half before long so there will be far fewer people to suffer.

 

[hollydolly]

The population will be cut in half before long so there will be far fewer people to suffer.

how do you figure that out , Chic.. ? from what I can see the population is exploding..

 

[Mike]

Good examples here are in the supermarkets, they have
very few cashiers on tills, self service tills are more common
now than manned ones.

The large Sainsbury's, where I shop occasionally have smart
shopping, you can use a handset, or your phone to scan the
shopping and bag it, then go to special tills to pay, you can
pay at any till, even a manned on, that shop also has self service
tills for small basket shoppers, other ones for a trolley, plus a few
manned tills, but there are so few staff who are cashiers, that
sometimes most of the self service are closed, because there
is only one person to look after all the tills, that causes problems
when several people need help, this is AI which has taken over
40 or 50 jobs.

Mike.

 

[chic]

how do you figure that out , Chic.. ? from what I can see the population is exploding..

I don't mean in 6 months Hols. But going forward, there will be far fewer humans for various reasons. I also think AI proponents know this and have factored it into their prognostications.

 

[Mike]

The birth rate in China has fallen, around 1 million fewer
in 2022 that in 2021.
https://www.scmp.com/economy/econom...109/china-population-7-takeaways-2022-figures

Mike.

 

[Fyrefox]

My grocery store and it’s chain stores have a rolling robot of sorts called “Marty” whose job it is to detect and report spills on the floor. It’s ambulatory and autonomous, certainly artificial, but hardly intelligent. It’s basically a moving pedestal without any limbs, and the googly-eyes added for whimsical effect. It was initially quite an attraction, but is hardly given a second look nowadays. I consider it kind of a rolling nuisance…

 

[hollydolly]

My grocery store and it’s chain stores have a rolling robot of sorts called “Marty” whose job it is to detect and report spills on the floor. It’s ambulatory and autonomous, certainly artificial, but hardly intelligent. It’s basically a moving pedestal without any limbs, and the googly-eyes added for whimsical effect. It was initially quite an attraction, but is hardly given a second look nowadays. I consider it kind of a rolling nuisance…

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Our local Superstore has that too...it's white ..the children get a big kick out of it..

 

[hearlady]

Even the humble Lollipop person is likely to not exist soon...

Skoda the car manufacturer is developing and testing new technologies to quote : 'make roads safer for children, senior citizens and those with disabilities'.

This includes a robot that can escort people to cross safely and new LED displays mounted in its cars' grilles that show unique animations to tell people when it is - and isn't - okay to step out in front of drivers.

Robotic roadside assistant: This is the IPA2X, which is currently being tested as a means of improving road safety, especially at crossings

The robot, which is over two metres tall, looks like a mobile traffic light that makes its way to the middle of a pedestrian crossing.

Once it gets there, it will display a green light and pedestrians can cross.

The robot is constantly monitoring its surroundings, so it can detect that a car is approaching the crossing.

With sensors located two metres high, it is able to see over parked cars. It then heads out into the road when it sees it's safe to do so.

The robot displays both information for pedestrians and warnings for approaching cars – it shows approaching drivers a stop sign.

It also sends a warning to the car itself, which is displayed as an animation on the infotainment display.

Once the pedestrians have crossed the road, the robot goes back to the pavement.

The moment it reaches the kerb, the alert on the car's dashboard disappears and the driver can continue on their way.

Further developments of the robot will look to also provide audio warnings, the car maker said.

Aside: When my daughter was young she wanted to be that person that holds up the sign. She REALLY would have wanted to if she knew it was called a lollipop person!

 

[packleader]

If you are worried what kind of jobs are good for your children and grandchildren to make their living in the future, then recommend to study the: Home : Occupational Outlook Handbook: : U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (bls.gov) or simply https://www.bls.gov/ooh .

It contains such sections as, for example, Fast-growing occupations that pay well and don’t require a college degree : Career Outlook: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (bls.gov) or simply https://www.bls.gov/careeroutlook/2022/article/occupations-that-dont-require-a-degree.htm

The Handbook contains great advice about pros and cons about many jobs, and which ones might be best for the future of AI.

 

[hollydolly]

Aside: When my daughter was young she wanted to be that person that holds up the sign. She REALLY would have wanted to if she knew it was called a lollipop person!

to be pedantic..even in this day and age ..it's still called a Lollipop Lady or Lollipop Man...so you can tell your daughter she could still be a lollipop lady..( or peson).. it's a job people usually do after they retire...

 

[hearlady]

Good to know! @hollydolly

 

[David777]

Nvidia is not the only firm cashing in on the AI gold rush

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/nvidia-not-only-firm-cashing-193319995.html

Other chip firms, from fellow designers like AMD to manufacturers such as TSMC of Taiwan, have been swept up in the AI excitement. So have providers of other computing infrastructure—which includes everything from those colourful cables, noisy air-conditioning units and data-centre floor space to the software that helps run the AI models and marshal the data. An equally weighted index of 30-odd such companies has risen by 40% since ChatGPT’s launch in November, compared with 13% for the tech-heavy NASDAQ

Times are and will be changing rapido...

Generative Artificial Intelligence
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generative_artificial_intelligence

Generative artificial intelligence is a type of artificial intelligence (AI) system capable of generating text, images, or other media in response to prompts. Generative AI models learn the patterns and structure of their input training data, and then generate new data that has similar characteristics.

• In 2014, advancements such as the variational autoencoder and generative adversarial network produced the first practical deep neural networks capable of learning generative, rather than discriminative, models of complex data such as images. These deep generative models were the first able to output not only class labels for images, but to output entire images.
• In 2017, the Transformer network enabled advancements in generative models, leading to the first Generative pre-trained transformer in 2018.This was followed in 2019 by GPT-2 which demonstrated the ability to generalize unsupervised to many different tasks as a Foundation model.
• In 2021, the release of DALL-E, a transformer-based pixel generative model, followed by Midjourney and Stable diffusion marked the emergence of practical high quality Artificial intelligence art from natural language prompts.
• In 2023, GPT-4 was released. A team from Microsoft Research concluded that "it could reasonably be viewed as an early (yet still incomplete) version of an artificial general intelligence (AGI) system".