LogFAQs > #979369048

Lay people tend to brush it off as hype, or hype it up for futurism because they like blinking lights and magic tricks. But for people following this closely, it is growing exponentially to the point where jobs are starting to be replaced. The new AI "Devin" is a standalone programmer that can create and close its own issues on GitHub with a 13% success rate. Only 13% you might say, but that's a metric that will only grow, until it's 50%, 80%, 99%. At some point, programmers are going to be out of a job.

So we're going to be relegated to physical jobs only, right? Wrong. Those are going too. These companies have made it their stated goal to replace the human workforce.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiKvPJSOUmE

Why pay someone $30k annually when you could buy one $10k robot to do it forever? And people say there will be jobs that pop up that are more advanced to replace the old ones. Maybe, but most likely there will be something like a 1:10 replacement ratio. And people say it's currently too crappy to replace humans, or that it fundamentally will never be good enough. This is just wrong. With all due respect, you are not paying attention to how fast this is growing with no major hurdles.

There will be mass layoffs, and either we adopt some kind of UBI or we will just collapse. This is a huge curveball from regular political discourse.