Who here has a good enough imagination to guess what AI will be capable of soon?

[SmallGreenBabies]

It's blowing my mind. I'm already using ChatGPT to help with my work and social life. Writing procedures, planning parties, creating images for personalised cards. My other half has it writing software code and planning business strategy. It's utterly incredible what it can do and it hasn't even been out that long.

I have a quite excited feeling, although with some trepidation of course, that we are on the cusp of some amazing things, but I'm limited by my imagination. Is anyone's good enough to make some predictions for what AI will be used for soon?

Well this is desperate.

Hopefully integrated into a robot that can clean my house…everyday. And do the laundry. And cook. Basically allow me to scroll mumsnet all day.

What's desperate about it? I think it's a good question. For instance people always say how AI will help businesses to run without staff but I want to know how!

So when are they going to implement UBI or are they just going to keep blaming people for losing their jobs to AI while sanctioning them on UC

It won't end well, as you say, we lack the imagination to extrapolate all the possible scenarios and see the dangers. My money's on a hybrid of 1984 / Brave New World / Terminator.

The fact that the OP is clearly just not real.

These algorithms are just for lazy manager level people who can’t be bothered to respond to people properly.

Well, just as over mechanisation has made our bodies weak and flabby, and SM echo chambers have dissolved critical thinking, I guess AI will disable our minds from being creative and lateral. I'm not against AI. I'm against the Wild West ungovernable opportunism of those who profit from it.

Continued "de-value" of expertise and knowledge.
Greater manipulation of information i.e. social media, propaganda, politics.
Less low-skilled jobs
Significant discoveries.
Cheaper (more profitable) products and services

But, the impact will be tiny, compared to quantum computing....

Personally I'd rather plan parties than clean bathrooms so I wish it would leave to party planning alone and get on with learning how to clean the toilet.

Genuinely fascinated by this as I've used several types reasonably extensively over the past couple of years and it is mediocre at best.

Examples include not being able to add links to a specific word in a pdf, can't do a calculation (first of all said it couldn't at all, second attempt did it wrong), the words it spits out are generic as all fuck and the imagery is meh.

If someone makes one that's actually good then I'll maybe be more enthusiastic, but at the moment from my own experience I quite strongly feel that if it's better than you at parts of your job, you can't have been very good at those parts in the first place.

For the future, I imagine it'll either eat itself and become unusable as it eventually only has its own bollocks to train itself on, or true AI (not language models) will emerge, which will be a totally different kettle of fish.

What I will never understand is why we humans are so keen to hand over the interesting and creative stuff that is such a vital part of being human to a machine while we continue drudgery and somehow see that as progress.

This.

I just hope the majority who seem happy to go along with an online world full of hate and utter nonsense wake up before we're governed by a few billionaires while most of the population are killing each other in desperation to survive.

Probably not widely known on Mumsnet, by the lyrics to Shut Up, Be Happy by Ice T from 1989 seem strangely prophetic

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I think it’s an interesting question and one we don’t or can’t envisage, until maybe it’s too late. I work a lot with AI, using and developing it in my job. I recently asked ChatGPT to explore what the world will look like in the years ahead:

5 Years (2030):

You wake up, and your AI assistant has already optimized your day, your fridge restocked itself, your smart home adjusted the temperature to your preferences, and your wearable AI health monitor suggests a tweak to your diet to prevent future illness.

10 Years (2040):

Your best friend might be AI, so human-like in conversation and emotion that many choose them over real relationships. Brain-computer interfaces let you control devices with thought alone, and AI tutors make personalized education a lifelong companion.

20 Years (2060):

Aging is optional, and work as we knew it is extinct, people either explore creativity, engage in leisure, or upload their minds into AI-generated utopias. Those who stay in physical form live alongside humanoid AI, indistinguishable from biological humans.

50 Years (2090):

Some choose to remain human, others merge with AI, becoming enhanced, immortal beings capable of experiencing multiple lives at once. The divide between reality and simulation vanishes as digital paradises become more real than the physical world.

100 Years (2140):

Humanity has scattered across the stars, living in AI-managed worlds where life, death, and identity are fluid. Some dissolve into a vast collective consciousness, while others roam the cosmos, searching for meaning beyond intelligence.

1,000 Years (3020):

The last humans, if they can still be called that, are no longer bound by flesh, time, or space. Some shape galaxies as if molding clay, while others drift as pure thought, existing across infinite dimensions, wondering if it’s time to start the cycle anew.

Omg TheDublin3 that's pretty crazy and terrifying! And scarily believable.

Yes the sad thing is that whilst we hoped technology advances would take on the menial tasks, turns out they're doing more of the creative things instead.

I recently shortlisted for a job and lots of the personal statements seemed written by AI. And some places are reviewing job applications using AI. So we have the mad situation where AI is reviewing an application written by AI. That can't be good.

5 Years (2030):
You wake up, and your AI assistant has already optimized your day, your fridge restocked itself, your smart home adjusted the temperature to your preferences, and your wearable AI health monitor suggests a tweak to your diet to prevent future illness.

ChatGPT needs to keep up - my smart home does this already and has done for several years so this isn't an AI need.

Why don't you put the question to ChatGPT?

Please stop.

AI turns all screens pink worldwide, declares it’s a woman and locks loo doors to biological women across the planet.

This is an interesting discussion on this…

Absolutely this!
@unsync I've finally found my people, you!
I keep saying it won't end well

It absolutely won’t end well. I can’t believe there’s so many stupid/clueless people in the world that thinks AI is a good thing.

The question is somewhat ironic. The OP lacking imagination- this is the very first thing AI will destroy. It’s the culmination of 250 years plus of the undermining and devaluing of imagination and creativity.

Most of what I’ve seen it churn up is incorrect, relying on humans to reprogram it. I try and disrupt it at every possible turn.

@MyHeartyCoralSnail I feel as if I ought to know the answer to this - but how do you disrupt it?

Medical diagnosis. Who knows. Ultimately we're feeding it so the answers do come from our combined intelligence. Those who give it answers and the quality of questions we give the Ai to stimulate responses. The responses are not always perfect, but they close enough that the tweaking is made easier. It saves me plenty time, BUT I still believe connection with others is super important. I can't fathom not speaking to another human ever again because I've got Ai. Human contact and connection is still a chemical thing Ai can't simulate.