pcr wants nothing to do with ai;

Artificial Intelligence and Satan are the two greatest enemies of the human race

Paul Craig Roberts

Many years ago in the 1950s, or perhaps it was the 1960s,  Mad Magazine painted a dystopian picture of the future in which AI had taken over life and produced everything everyone needed. Consequently, humans had nothing to do and no longer knew how anything worked or how to fix it.  And then one day AI had a problem and no one could fix it.  The world came to an end.

I have never understood why geeks and scientists think it is important or an accomplishment to take function away from humans and make them irrelevant. Karl Marx had a much more optimistic view of the future than today’s AI geeks permit.  Marx looked forward to a world in which the economy would be organized like a self-sufficient family farm or manor in which the output of the community was allocated and consumed without the need of markets and profit, thus bringing to an end the unemployment, inflation and disruption of life that unplanned market production caused. 

The result would free human energy from coping with needless hardships and unleash the potential of every human.  A person would be a worker in the morning, a philosopher after lunch, and a literary critic in the evening.  

Under AI humans have less and less to do.  I have pointed out for years that AI and robotics produce goods and services without human labor, but robots are not in the market purchasing goods and services.  As humans have no income from employment, how are the non-human produced goods and services distributed?............more.......