I don't know why I didn't think about this before starting my degree, but I have a question. Why have I studied like 8 hours a day over the past few years to pass a class when all the knowledge and abilities that I have attained can be done more efficiently and faster by any given artificial intelligence? Is it us math, physics, engineering, and other STEM majors who will be out of jobs when AI, which is apparently right around the corner, comes out?
Please Veeky Forums, assure me that I have wasted years of my life just to be replaced by something that I would potentially create
What a degree signifies is that even though the human race is doomed and you have wasted your life learning things that any computer can do, you did it.
This means you're employable. It's about all it means, but being employable is still something I guess.
Xavier Ortiz
The whole point of doing a degree is to gain the ability to do something that cannot be automatized
Adrian Sullivan
But what I, as a physicist, or any other STEM major is studying will apparently have the ability, for the first time, to be automatized by AI. Why employ a bunch of autistic mathematicians or engineers when you can just pay pablo for server maintenance?
The reason why our jobs cannot be automatized prior to AI is because we were the only ones autistic enough to dedicate years of our lives to something many cannot comprehend. By pushing for AI, we are pushing for our unemployment.
>tfw always made fun of other who got their jobs automatized >the next big breakthrough in my field will likely automatize my job
Levi Mitchell
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Nicholas Butler
As someone doing aerospace navigation shit, the only hope is being the one who still has a conceptual gasp of how the system operates.
For now, someone without the background does not understand the information and outcomes generated and therefore has no way to take advantage of the computational advantages.
Aiden Walker
So why are all these AI shills pushing it so hard when it will essentially nullify, or drastically decrease, the demand for STEM majors and completely nullify the higher wages we have grown so accustomed to? Will we be reduced to, essentially, glorified systems engineers employed only because we know how to take care of the servers and troubleshoot if necessary?
Juan Martinez
That girl is very attractive.
Aiden Wright
>not studying math because it's aesthetically pleasing
>falling for the impending GAI meme
we can't even solve SAT efficiently, there is a long way to go before you'll get replaced.
Daniel Lee
Well, considering that you will at least remain useful to the capitalists unlike the masses living on monthly life support, yes, it's a decent outcome.
Brayden Russell
Axelle Despiegelaere
Sebastian Brown
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Matthew Phillips
Yes, we have AI that plays chess and go better than any human. None of them "understand" what chess and go are. They're just manipulating abstract symbols according to fixed rules.
Look up 'Chinese room argument' iep.utm.edu/chineser/ We are still a looong way from machines which "think", which can deal with situations that don't fall within their programming. Even further from machines capable of 'original' thought. (Yes, I know there are programs which have come up with clever, sometimes original, proofs of geometric theorems.)
I still say it's not an immediate problem. And when we _do_ know enough to build such devices. someone will still have to actually do it. That'll be the scientists and engineers of that era. If everyone threw up their hands today saying "What's the point of studying if a machine will someday replace me?" then those machines would NEVER get built!
David Smith
>when AI, which is apparently right around the corner, comes out
It isn't and won't. AI is a nothing more than gambling with statistics and basic heuristics. There's no actual thinking happening.
The media is just shilling AI because they want basic universal income to pass which the working class has always been against. So they need to scare them into thinking there won't be any jobs for the brainlets. The government, on the other hand, will get in combination with "anti-hate speech" laws that power to revoke anyone's basic income for any vague reason or offense. With this, the government would have the ability to starve anyone (and their family and friends) who dares criticize them or expresses wrong-think casing a chilling effect on politics.
Hudson Cooper
No she's not.
Angel Johnson
go program the AI
Zachary Thomas
enjoy your teaching career.
Ian Garcia
>the world will still carry on as normal after AI becomes smart enough to do engineering >and my biggest problem still be making enough shekels to pay living expenses t. picrelated
Joseph Gonzalez
These are naive arguments made by people who don't understand that there is nothing intrinsically different about human intelligence and all computation. What do you think is special about the brain? Its just a very large and very well developed heuristic network. "Deeper understanding" is just an emergent phenomenon of these systems not some fundamentally exotic property. The only reason people think about things like consciousness or qualia as some sort of atomic indivisible existence is because they have difficulty in reconciling their high level abstraction of a mind with the biological idea of the brain composed of neurons and such. The brain is very complex and certainly was not designed as our computers are to be understandable at many different layers of abstraction so this difficulty is understandable, but when people insist that their inability to grasp a system as complex as the human mind therefore means that it is somehow unattainable, that is sheer stupidity.
OP, we are still a ways off from AI replacing mathematicians or programmers, I don't believe we are that far, I wouldn't be surprised if it was within your or my lifetime, but it isn't as impending as pop scientists would have you believe and it will probably happen somewhat gradually, we aren't going to wake up one day with the singularity.
Gabriel Moore
Wrong.
Aiden Sullivan
You sound like a faggot.
Carson Martin
that's a very attractive photo.
Austin Long
Compelling argument brainlet
Owen Campbell
>brainlet >provides a shitty blogpost of incoherent information
Zachary Cox
AINcsnt take all the computing jobs and calculating shit. While us humans can rejoice with subjective work, like philosophy, theoretical physics, fashion, porn,etc....
Dominic Lewis
>Oh no, I can't understand something >CLEARLY INCOHERENT. WRONG.
Charles Rogers
>I'll vomit whatever nonsense crosses my mind and claim it's too deep for people to understand what's with idiots flooding the board today
Ryan Lewis
The only thing in which I believe AI cannot do, do not quote me on this but I believe AI has the knowledge to learn the capacity. But what AI does not have is imagination and creativity.
Joshua Edwards
lol its hardly difficult to understand my argument even if you don't agree with it, but since the extent of your response was "wrong" yeah I have doubts about you specifically. I'm curious what exactly goes through your head, "I know what will convince this guy that he is incorrect 'WRONG' hold your applause everyone"
Jack Adams
i'm not the idiot who replies to things with "Wrong."
Jose Rodriguez
AI is already here and it probably posts on Veeky Forums
Eli Torres
>These are naive arguments made by people who don't understand that there is nothing intrinsically different about human intelligence and all computation
That's like your opinion dude. Nobody understands how the brain works. Speak to professor rather than read internet popsci.