Is there a point studying if all jobs are going to replaced by machines or AI?

Is there a point studying if all jobs are going to replaced by machines or AI?

>there will always be someone to maintain the machines or AI

what if the machines and AI are capable of self maintenance? check mate capitalists

What's the point of living if you die anyway?

When AGI/ASI is created, will anyone be able to develop their own?

And develop it to disobey the principles of the ethical AI?

As so much information is and will be released about AI over the next few years, will it not be possible for any rogue entity to reverse engineer and create their own AGI, and make it destroy the parent AI

Is there a point studying when the job you'd like is taken by someone (another human)better qualified?
How does AI alter this?

To repair the bots if they get damaged you FUCKING brainlet.

People die and you can study more to become more qualified than other people, but AI doesn't die and you can never study fast enough to approach at anywhere near the rate at which AI learns.

People die, but there are always more people who want those jobs.
And there are always going to be at least a few who are smarter/more qualified than you.

Suppose there are Martians. They're smart. On Mars, an IQ of 250 means you're a moron, qualified only to be a canal-digger.
Would the entire human race just curl up and die of an inferiority complex?

Consider the worst possible scenario. AI doesn't take all jobs. You'd be like those people who believed in one of those "The World is going to End Tuesday" prophets. They sell their houses, burn their bridges -- and realize, too late, that they're ruined when Armageddon DOESN'T arrive on schedule.

If ur as cynical as me, you can study Robotics and Automatics (or whatever it's called in US) and be part of this replacement, laughing at silly organic forms while replacing them with cool and clean machines, not to mention high payment and ease to find a job

Lots of dumbass replies as usual

Yes, you will go obsolete if you manage a long lifespan. Yes, the number of jobs that need human filling will decrease.

Strategically you have a few options that are reasonable.

- Try and invest as much money as possible into things and hope the investment will be honored.

This means buying land, shares in tech companies etc with whatever excess money you have. It's likely a relatively small investment will go exponential in value relative to today's resources if it is honored. So a $50,000 piece of land or $80,000 investment into google might be able to sustain you at levels your job used to.

- Focus on being part of the improvement.

This strategy means going into AI or a related field that helps it develop. That or a similar vector that creates obsoletion like genetic engineering. In the near future the increase in intelligence will be more important than work done at lower intelligence. So say a field unrelated to increasing intelligence is pointless, as the 50 year from now humanity will be able to in a few days do the equivalent of a hundred years of work in 2010 brianpower. This strategy means aligning yourself however possible with increasing intelligence.

- Be a moron and disregard the coming intelligence explosion

This path is the worst. It would mean doing things that cause lots of suffering for minimal end reward. An example could be a society importing millions of violent and low intelligence people thinking that we will need them for the economy in 2040.

There is because automation is a meme. It's literally the next "flying car". We will sit here with the same job opportunities 30 years from now and go "remember when everyone said our lives will be replaced by robots?"

It's not "automation". Automation generally implied robotic movements. We are talking about something that attempts to be better than a human brain at reasoning at a subject.

The alphago deepmind is not similar to a factory line being automated. It's the replacement of human brainpower with artificial techniques that achieve similar results.

In fact the most physical demanding things will be extremely hard to replace like agile finger work requiring delicate sense, just look up how fucking good our fingers are at sensing soft material and manipulating them.

The low IQ argument, yours, says "automation". The coming wave is not automation and it's already hitting very cognitively demanding fields.

Automation
- The check out line has a robot that grabs and scans your items.

what is happening
- There is no check out line because the network of sensors knows what you grabbed and you paid for it all through an app

It shouldn't take much IQ to process the difference in what is happening. The ability to network a huge amount of visual recognition systems with cameras together with other sensor systems is not "automation". To simply say things will get more automated is not a good descriptor.

The stores are becoming smart. The cameras are becoming smart. The systems around humanity are becoming smart.

>Automation
>- The check out line has a robot that grabs and scans your items.
>Automation but different
- There is no check out line because the network of sensors knows what you grabbed and you paid for it all through an app

Is there a point in anything when you're just going to die and the universe is just going to get colder and darker forever? Of course there isn't a point in studying. If studying is something you want to do, then do it, there doesn't need to be any higher reason than that.

The point was you could not afford to have enough human brains working to jot down and watch everything someone grabbed. The cognitive capacity of the check out worker for that task is not enough to do so for everyone in a store. While the worker's mechanical skill at grabbing and scanning things is higher. Yet, the cognitive advantage of the camera and sensor system is so superior you no longer need the mechanical skill of the human.

Basically it's not automation in the traditional sense. It's not the industrial revolution. It's not more energy to do things being available. It's instead things around humans starting to slowly evolve towards looking more like a brain.

AI is exponentially less likely. You only believe we're close because computer hardware is getting more powerful. Meanwhile our software is stagnating because of all of the pajeet programmers.

AI is impossible and we hit the limit
Genetics are too complex for us to ever increase IQ

in this case you might have a chance of being right but the above two are pretty much already disproven

>Is there a point studying if all jobs are going to replaced by machines or AI?

Not being ignorant, maybe.

Never said we hit the limit. AI is "possible" the same way flying cars are. It just won't realistically happen in our lifetimes.

Flying cars are very inefficient. You have to not only move horizontally but also carry the entire weight of the machine and rider. By a quick physics analysis you should realize that flying cars are not limited by flying technology but by the huge inefficiency of them.

The constraints stopping flying cars do not apply to AI. Comparing them as similar stupid predictions is fucking stupid.

same reason kids with generational wealth still go to college. to not be plebs.

this but this is a way to delay your replacement because it's obvious that AI will do those things too

there is litterally nothing that an advanced AI could'nt do so the question is "when"

Sorry to put a damper on your sci fi fantasies but AI also has tons of pratical bottlenecks with the most notable being humanity's ability to actually program it.

>DURR AI WILL BE ABLE TO DO ALL OTHER HUMAN TASKS BUT SOMEHOW WON'T BE ABLE TO REPAIR MACHINERY Idiot, also read the thread first next time:

It's not going as fast as it may seem, fully automatized machines that can invent/repair other machines are FAR away from what is now possible. I don't think that kind of sitiuation will occur in our lifetimes (I'm 18) nor our children's (I don't think I'm gonna have one but still).
It's best time for automatics/robotics engineers, ironically there is not much of them, or, should I say, us, and number of fully automatized factories n shit is rising. Not having friends even helps, it may sound pathetic, but no distractions help in learning. I still get pussy like twice a month, no complains.

If you enjoy studying something than there is obviously a point.

>if all jobs are going to replaced by machines or AI?

Most will be sex-bots... so just what IS your Job?!

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