just off the top of my head, some of the implications:
there will be a blurring of reality and digital reality.. authenticity in the digital world will lose all meaning. maybe this means we start spending more time outdoors
this might have psychological implications for us far more than is already the case with VR. Now we can resurrect the dead, mirror the mannerisms and thought patterns - that is just going to be plain weird...
Yikes! Does that mean we're going to start getting robo-calls from the likes of Groucho Marx, Paul Robeson, and Ronald Reagan?
just off the top of my head, some of the implications:
there will be a blurring of reality and digital reality.. authenticity in the digital world will lose all meaning. maybe this means we start spending more time outdoors
this might have psychological implications for us far more than is already the case with VR. Now we can resurrect the dead, mirror the mannerisms and thought patterns - that is just going to be plain weird
there will be massive productivity gains .. I think this is the step that really does unleash unbounded productivity and frees us from the "shackles of labor" BUT
that will imply massive social realignment. We evolved over millions of years competing over scarce resources.. that particular branch of the evolutionary tree may have just come to an end. scarcity will become micromanaged. risk will change its meaning.
the distribution of wealth suddenly takes on a whole new significance.. who is going to benefit from the newly created abundance? Will it be even possible to patent proprietary rights, when the machines do 99% of the creating? Will that even mean anything?
will we as a species adjust to abundance or just die of boredom? "Hey bot, re-engineer the sabre tooth tiger."
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The biggest problem, as I see it, is the associated dumbing down of the audience that you refer to. A lot of younger translators are now forced to use machine translations (for cost reasons) but they just don't see the mistakes the machine makes. So over time a wrong translation becomes standard. ...
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That is the situation that all businesses face right now, and it's a bit of a chicken and egg. It's very hard to find financial, tax, and accounting staff who are interested in "knowing" the rules and reasons. They want the answers. Quickly. As easy as possible. Maybe the biggest change isn't work ethic, so much as a total loss of inquisitive nature. Why or how doesn't matter...just what.
For now, more senior staff can fill in the holes and avoid the breakage, but that's going to end soon. When nobody understands why things were done, how will they ever adapt to the constantly changing universe?
It may all end up OK, because when they can't explain things (like the US tax code), maybe they just start over and by default remove all of the subtle problems that have built up over time, but it's a huge risk.
As negative as I and others can be about AI and its use, it is an amazingly exciting time to be working. I've lived through the migration from analog to digital in finance, and wish I could stick around long enough to fix some of the legacy issues. Change can't come fast enough, as I probably only have 10 or 15 years left to play.
