The impact of AI on the economy?

[Justin Passing]

It could be used say to learn which rocks contain kryptonite by looking at them and comparing with what it has seen before and assessed by whatever sensors it has, or plan the best route to move a rover across rough terrain. Then it can work out the optimum route to collect the most likely rocks. It can work things out, try things it can do and see what works - it can't do magic! It won't work out how to design a better rover, unless it has the knowledge all about that.

 

[carmanmemoranda]

It can work things out, try things it can do and see what works - it can't do magic! It won't work out how to design a better rover, unless it has the knowledge all about that.

Yet

 

[Dork Lard]

it can't do magic! It won't work out how to design a better rover, unless it has the knowledge all about that.

You should research it a bit more. Folk are already using it to design many things.

 

[JP_]

I wonder what the Government will do with the oncoming AI revolution and the impact it will have on the economy and workforce.

Mass unemployment or just the next economic wave like the Industrial revolution?

It might well improve productivity and make British businesses more profitable.

 

[diy_fun_uk]

You could say that for just about everything that has ever been invented.

Yes but AI, if it has access to hardware and vehicles, has the potential to be a completely different beast to previous tech.

 

[IT Minion]

I recall being told in 1988 that 4GLs meant no more computer programmers, then again a few years later CASE would do the same. Then it was object oriented programming, then it was the internet, then it was low code, open source, now machine learning.

Yet tech companies still hire programmers and they still license the output. Microsoft already took over the world, ChatGPT is not going to make much difference.

It is more of the same. 4th Generation languages made programming easier and quicker so more applications, doing more things, happened.

Object orientation made larger programs more practical.

Code repositories, frameworks and micro architecture means that you can plug code together faster now.

AI will just speed things up a bit more. It's already doing it as you can ask these services for code to do XYZ. Effectively a 5th generation language.

If the appetite for more code is fulfilled it will reduce the IT job count, if there is no limit to the appetite then there'll just be more written.

We're a way off AI being able to full architect and write significant applications.

It's the rest of the economy that'll be transformed first.

 

[diy_fun_uk]

Yes it is, although AI software will be incorporated into the design, surely?
Smart homes; smart cars, smart this-and-that.
I have an uncomfortable feeling my fridge may be smarter than me sometime in the future.

If something significant was to happen in my region today, I have the ability to jump in my (2008 registered old fashioned) car and drive to my family a few miles away. Imagine if the same was to happen a couple of decades down the line.

'For citizens safety, all vehicles have been temporarily disabled by the central citizen welfare control centre. A further message will follow when they have been reactivated. This is for your safety, thank you for your cooperation.'

Yes you might read the above and laugh, however as the appliances and vehicles we use become ever more connected, from a technical perspective, anything is possible. All for our own safety and wellbeing you understand ...

'If you attempt to drive into a low emission zone for a third time within three calendar months, your vehicle will safety come to a halt at the roadside. Once you pay the £100 release fee, your vehicle will be reactivated.'

 

[diy_fun_uk]

Anyone, ANYONE, who thinks AI won't be used by the world's unhinged to do nasty stuff is thick, they're not simply misinformed, they're thick.

 

[IT Minion]

Anyone, ANYONE, who thinks AI won't be used by the world's unhinged to do nasty stuff is thick, they're not simply misinformed, they're thick.

Like every other bit of technology. Ever.

But it's best not to get hysterical over it.

 

[Justin Passing]

You should research it a bit more. Folk are already using it to design many things.

You should constrain your ignorant fantasies.

 

[diy_fun_uk]

Like every other bit of technology. Ever.

But it's best not to get hysterical over it.

It's nothing to do with getting hysterical, it's about being open and realistic to the potential of AI (for good and bad) compared to previous technology, relatively dumb by comparison.

 

[Justin Passing]

Nobody's fridge is going to declare war on Russia.
Someone may be able access your car and turn it off, but that's neither a necessary nor sufficient condition for AI to be at work.
But yes, Black Hat operators can be expected to exploit all resources to the max. The are fully connected to the internet, which is where I'm expecting to see something interesting. We won't be able to prevent people trying.

 

[IT Minion]

It's nothing to do with getting hysterical, it's about being open and realistic to the potential of AI (for good and bad) compared to previous technology, relatively dumb by comparison.

Which you could say about almost every other technology before AI.

 

[motorbiking]

I can see AI being used to perform phishing attacks in the way Indian call centres currently do it. In addition AI can be used to breakdown human defences via chat forums. An AI could make out it fancies you and secure your confidence. People target vulnerable lonely people, an AI can do this.

 

[jj4091]

It is more of the same. 4th Generation languages made programming easier and quicker so more applications, doing more things, happened.

Object orientation made larger programs more practical.

Code repositories, frameworks and micro architecture means that you can plug code together faster now.

AI will just speed things up a bit more. It's already doing it as you can ask these services for code to do XYZ. Effectively a 5th generation language.

If the appetite for more code is fulfilled it will reduce the IT job count, if there is no limit to the appetite then there'll just be more written.

We're a way off AI being able to full architect and write significant applications.

It's the rest of the economy that'll be transformed first.

I don't know anything about writing code or programming but in the early 70's I started working in the photocopier industry. Went in many offices, typing pools & print rooms that employed lots of typists, secretaries & printers plus other ancillary people. Within 5 years the typing pools were empty & copy typists redundant, 20 years & large reduction in non specialist printers & print rooms closed down, 30 years & secretaries began to disappear ( as much to do with word processors as copiers ). My point is that as things progress technology seems to make what had been classed as skilled work outdated & my suspicion is that AI will probably have the same effect on the IT industry. Like many other old industries of the past.