Historically humans have been much more adaptable than machines. When machinery catches up to human capabilities, it out-competes them and humans find a new economic niche. In a world where machines are more adaptable and beat us to the new niches, where do we go?
Personally, I am finding the sublime in numerical methods and I have always been horrible at manual algebra.
It's like a time travel movie. "We have to go back!"
Machines can do math, sure, and even learn the contours of the systems they represent. That's incredible. But machines lack the human interface that allows infinite abstraction.
So, humans, left with the power of infinite regress, must teach the machines that are so adamantly automating the tasks we deem important as a species.
It is possible now, in 2024, to legislate runaway automation with more human-verified checkpoints and more skilled humans running these checkpoints.
Major integration network paths are verified by the veracity of the integral checks performed on the flowing data.
From here you can measure capacitance, rate of flow, and begin to inspect the data as far as legislation will allow you to.
For any practical scientific purposes, such as analyzing tornado paths and devising a rubric of resource allocation,
You can measure all elements as a wave until a significant event occurs (including malicious data vectors). You can tune a sample rate for that.
With enough people continuously performing validation analysis on data flow, the machines we rely on to achieve our target numbers can begin to rationalize truth and fiction.
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Here's the catch: we just have to do it right the first time round.
How does this new niche form? How does the AI know to fill it? How does the AI get access to fill do what it needs to do? How does AI solve the edge? Humanoid robots? Who is going to protect the robots from the people who aim to destroy them? More robots? Are they allowed to kill? How is AI policed? What happens when the AI does something it shouldn't do? What happens when AI decides humans are getting in the way? This is how The Matrix started.
I don't think humans are going to just roll over and accept their new AI overlords.
