I just got an AI programme to write a set of Napoleonic rules!

[Ray Rivers]

Bill Gates is reportedly negotiating an investment of 10 Billion dollars into ChatGPI.

I smell a revolution about to happen.

[Easy E]

I guess it is time for my to move on from making Buggy Whips, then. 

[vtsaogames]

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, I worked in the NYU library as a bibliographic searcher. New books were cataloged by author, in most cases an easy task. But various collections of essays by groups of scientists or other academics could be less straightforward. Was the umpteenth symposium of molecular physics responsible or was it the sub-committee on fluid dynamics? Such tomes would land on my desk. First, I would peruse our collection of search books that listed how other libraries had cataloged books. Once found, they would be cataloged in the same fashion. If not found, then I would hazard a guess at who was responsible for the new tome and catalog it that way.

One day, some cathode ray tube computer terminals (probably stop a .357 magnum), were plunked down nearby. They contained some of the information in our search books. We were assured that our jobs were safe. Right. I figured they were safe until all the information in our voluminous search books had been entered. After that they wouldn’t need near as many human searchers as were then employed. Later I took an evening class at the university in computer programming. I eventually got a job doing that and left bibliographic searching behind, before the job vaporized. The pay was better too.

[vtsaogames]

Bill Gates is reportedly negotiating an investment of 10 Billion dollars into ChatGPI.

I smell a revolution about to happen.

10 billion dollars to Bill Gates is a middling wager.

[DivisMal]

As others have already remarked, those AIs have reached impressive/potentially dangerous levels. There are many tasks that they can imitate already very well and I do foresee a lot of social problems on the one hand and a lot of fascinating possibilities on the other.

[ced1106]

I'm seeing the same promises made 35 years ago, when I was studying AI. Still waiting.

It's not the technology. It's how you use it. I also read some finance articles about credit card technology (the chips, which are now common). You remember all those credit card chip technology companies, right? No, you don't. You remember the companies that *use* the chip, such as Visa, Discover, etc.

Financial institutions have been using "algorithms" to buy and sell stocks for years. What's the difference between an "algorithm" and AI? Again, who cares, so long as the institutions can find a way to get retail investors involved in their pump and dump schemes.

Siri, Alexa, and Amazon are cited as AI in use today. But they're not exactly the AI promises that were made, even if Siri can help me find a recipe using meatballs.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertadams/2017/01/10/10-powerful-examples-of-artificial-intelligence-in-use-today/?sh=25e30565420d

EDIT: Whoa! That *was* in 2017! Anyone remember using Alexa, Siri, Tesla, Amazon, and Netflix?

[Tactalvanic]

Just wrote a really long agreement and justification with ced1106

Then realised, no probably not so much detail.. TLDR etc

+1 what he just said. 

[carlos marighela]

The robots are coming for all our jobs, no one is safe.  It does not matter is you are blue collar, creative workers or white collar types.   

Not mine, at least not yet and in all likelihood not in my lifetime but they are more than welcome to it if they can.

I for one welcome our new robotic overlords.

[carlos marighela]

Read the rules.

It's fair to say they have an equivalent worth to what you paid for them, possibly slightly less if you were to factor in the cost of printing them out.

The monkey analogy is apt.

[Silent Invader]

https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertadams/2017/01/10/10-powerful-examples-of-artificial-intelligence-in-use-today/?sh=25e30565420d

Interestingly that article (it’s a good read) was written in 2017 and comments that “quantum computers could still be about 5 years out”.