Watching porn.

At Walmart. Look for the shorts, T shirt, flip flops, and no makeup.

What I've noticed is that the Chat GPT "AI" doesn't really think. It regurgitates. That's what it is designed to do. It ingests all the digital data and text that is out there and can spit it out on demand. It's a repository of knowledge not an intelligence. As such it will never be able to solve novel problems or answer hypotheticals. It will never be able to answer questions that have never been asked and written about before. So if you can answer such questions by virtue of having real intelligence your job is safe.

I very much hope we can do away with laptops and PCs and just dock our phones into stations with screen/mouse/keyboard.

I've noticed that AI can't really answer hypothetical questions. Since it trains on existing data it can't imagine things it has not encountered during training. But there are all kinds of jobs that involve solving problems that have never been solved. Imagine being a physicist and wondering what would happen if, at the moment of the big bang, physical constants like the speed of light were not constant. What would be the specific implications of that wrt to particle physics? Since there is no data on such a thing, and perhaps no one has ever entertained that thought, AI will be of no use. It's relatively easy to think of similar situations in any field where solutions require imagining things that have never been imagined.

Have them be dockable so you don't need a laptop or desktop anymore.

They have purpose built software that is better than a general purpose AI.

Obviously not because someone has to pay the taxes to pay for UBI.

Extrapolate the existing trends. More partisan division leading to violence. More environmental degradation. More homelessness. More deaths from drugs. More wealth inequality. More war.

The leading cause of death is America is heart disease which is a lifestyle disease. It's well known how to avoid it, people just don't do it so people will continue to die.

The trades will always be in demand. You think a robot is going to come out to your house to try and figure out why your drain is clogged and fix it? Nope. And in health care, Do you think anyone is going to want to see a machine for couples counseling? Nope. In STEM fields AI is just going to be another tool to make people more efficient. Eliminate the drudgery so people can focus on high level thinking. If your job is drudgery though, I'd be worried.

 

I'm sure AI will get good enough to fool a lot of people into thinking it is truly intelligent. But that just points to the gullibility of humans. There are more synaptic connections in the brain than there are stars in milky way. the brain is the most complex thing in the known universe and we do not understand it at all. To think that AI is some kind of sentient being is ridiculous.

If you stare into the abyss long enough it's all you'll see. You have to live your life and adapt to what it throws at you. Worrying about large scale trends that you have no control over will make you miserable. Do what you can to make the world better and accept that that's all you can do.

I don't know what the advantage of using VR would be. You can certainly create realistic 3D CAD models right now and the person driving the keyboard can take you through it, cut cross sections, zoom in and out, with the result shown on a big projector screen. I suppose it might serve some gee-whiz factor for selling clients if they can be immersed in it but I don't see it serving an engineering purpose. Seems like a solution in search of a problem.

Currently all forms of mental illness are diagnosed based on symptoms. There is no biological test to confirm any DSM-V diagnosis. That will change. There have been large genetic studies done that show that what we think of as different disorders actually share genetic material. For example bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. So in the future, I predict there won't be new disorders but the way we think of existing ones will change. I think it highly likely that the biochemistry of psychosis is the same regardless of what disorder it results from. There is compelling evidence that psychosis happens when dopamine receptors get overstimulated. The future is not in refining our classification systems. It's making the leap from mental illness to neuroscience.

 

Also, addiction is known to be a brain disorder and probably the disorder that causes the most suffering out of all of them. Unfortunately very few good treatments exist. The best treatment is abstinence but getting there is problematic.