A MILLION NEW… EVERYTHING

If people like Altman, Musk, Kurzweil, Hassabis, Huang, Bostrom, etc, are correct, then in the next 5 years (and possibly much sooner) we will start to have AI agents that are smarter than any single qualified human expert in every domain – every branch of science, medicine, comp-sci, etc.

And one of the biggest implications of this, as Altman has been pointing out, is a world where we have a million new experts on every topic, available to analyse and interpret the results of existing experiments, to conceive of and run new virtual experiments and advise humans on how to run physical experiments in the lab, then analyse those results.

And yet, outside of the occasional article in the MSM and forums like reddit, I don’t think see much discussion about this potential reality.

What does the world’s response to climate change look like when we have a million new virtual climate scientists?

What does health care look like when we have a million new virtual doctors and lab technicians?

What does mental health care look like when we have a million new virtual therapists?

What does cold fusion research look like when we have a million new virtual scientists working on that?

What does AI look like when we have a million new virtual AI programmers working on that?

What does a million new experts mean for Nano tech?

For Space travel?

For Robotics?

For Education?

For inequality in capitalism and the future of money?

What happens if AI-jet-powered science quickly helps make K. Eric Drexler’s visions of nanotech come to reality and we have nanofabricators in every house and suburb to make most of our daily food and material needs from waste products, and robots, their components made in nanofabs, to make anything requiring large-scale assembly? What happens to the cost of productions when anyone can make their friend their own nanofab and robot assistant with their own nanofab and robot?

Where are the politicians, journalists and social scientists who are discussing this in the mainstream?

There is a lot of talk about the threat of AI, either by bad actors or it becoming sentient and going all HAL2000.

But what about the age of miracles? How are we preparing for that possible eventuality in the next decade?

FUTURISTIC is run by two of Australia’s most insightful analysts of tech trends. We were there at the dawn of personal computing, the internet, and social media and we’ve seen many technology trends come and go. 

We believe the AI revolution is going to be bigger and faster than them all. BY FAR. 

Cameron was Australia’s first podcaster, launched the world’s first podcast network, made a documentary, and has written a few books. He worked for Australia’s first ISP back in the mid-90s, and then for Microsoft’s internet division. He lives in Brisbane. 

Cameron was Australia’s first podcaster, launched the world’s first podcast network, made a documentary, and has written a few books. He worked for Australia’s first ISP back in the mid-90s, and then for Microsoft’s internet division. He lives in Brisbane.