And affordable for common people.
I remember tiny “spy cameras” being a movie trope, now everyone has one in their pocket.
I remember tiny “spy cameras” being a movie trope, now everyone has one in their pocket.
The human mind acclimates to improvements remarkably fast, and the joy found in such novelties tends to be fleeting and quickly fade as it becomes just another normal part of everyday life we take for granted (e.g. fancy new tech, or really anything new and nice). I like to frequently reflect on how amazing it is I am alive and even exist at all!
Gratitude is truly the only effective counterdefense I've found to reduce the fade of true joys in life, like my friends and family.
The good (?) news is that this also works in reverse. So if we ever suffer a serious downgrade in living standards it’s not a serious issue. We’ll get used to it in no time :)
This is why I am not afraid automation is going to render us without jobs. We're going to get accustomed with better, and still need to work. AI exponential increase can't keep up with human entitlement.
Us needing to work does not meant that the jobs will still be there for us to work at.
The reason so much money goes into automation is simply because it cuts the payroll. The argument that there have always been jobs in the past, so there will always be jobs in the future, simply does not follow..
- latency - respond sooner to a request
- speed - work faster
- volume - produce more
- scalability - just deploy more models
- vigilance - the bot doesn't get tired and start making mistakes
- consistency - the bot does things one way, many people do things in many ways
- fewer human problems - no cutting corners, slacking off, office politics, etc
- lower environmental footprint
- increased work safety
- improved tracking - collect more data to analyse in order to improve your processes
I bought a Fitorch P25 last November. A LED flashlight, runs on a single li-ion cell, costs about $70. Fits in the palm of your hand. It has a light output of three thousand lumens! (A T8 florescent tube, which is four feet long and runs on mains power, does about 2600 lumens.)
It's got a couple brightness modes, which it makes you step through in series, for safety. At full grunt, if you hold your hand in the beam you have to squint against the glare and you can feel heat on your hand-- all from visible-spectrum photons only, no infrared! It's bright! Of the many warnings silkscreened onto the tube, one needs to be "do not look into flashlight with remaining eye".
I keep it on my desk, to keep me humble. I remember incandescent flashlights, and I remember alkaline batteries. Will my children remember them? Of course not.