IBM CEO Says It's a 'Good Thing' If AI Takes Your Job
I think IBMs CEO is being a bit on the optimistic side with regards to the actualy capabilities of AI..<p>However, I do hope strong AI will emerge eventually, and it will start some singularity-type event that basically makes most humans redundant.<p>If nobody&#x27;s got a job, nobody&#x27;s got money, money becomes redundant too.. If machines are taking care of mankinds basic needs, we become free to pursue higher purposes than merely surviving by working.<p>As fulfilling as our white-collar jobs may be, we&#x27;d still not do exactly THAT if we weren&#x27;t paid.. We&#x27;d do something slightly different that we personally wanted..<p>I love programming, but I love programming my little useless hobby projects more than I enjoy programming whatever the company I work for pays me to do (even if those projects are honestly pretty cool at times)..<p>When I was a kid, I was sure that by the time I&#x27;d be an adult, I&#x27;d not have to work, because I had already seen robots assembling cars!! I lacked the imagination to think that mankind weren&#x27;t coorporating towards the obvious goal of making survival, production of food, housing and other required work be done by machines.. I didn&#x27;t realize at the time how silly my fellow humans were..<p>But something like a strong, general-purpose artificial intelligence, it should force the decision to either kill everyone who becomes redundant, or set mankind free to pursue higher, personal goals, while the machines work for them.. I&#x27;d prefer the latter option.