Comments by "Paul Aiello" (@paul1979uk2000) on "Hollywood on Strike: The Future of Writers and Actors || Peter Zeihan" video.

  1. One thing I've learned throughout history is that any new tech that comes along that's better, faster and cheaper, it's only a matter of time before that ends up replacing a lot of jobs in the given field. In this case, we are talking about A.I. which overtime is going to be hooked up to robotics, the impact that is going to have on society and jobs is going to be revolutionary, more than any other invention we've created, and I suspect most of us are unaware of how big of a deal this is going to be over the coming decades. With that in mind, fighting it is pointless and doomed to fail, as it's always been when something comes along that can do a better job, cheaper and faster, which A.I. is quickly developing into doing so. The irony is, if actors, musicians, author, voice actors and countless others are not careful with this, they could kill their own industry a lot sooner if they try to cause too much trouble, in the end, many from games publishers, movie studios among others will simply bypass them as being too much trouble and not worth employing, especially now that there are cheaper alternatives on the market. If these people are smart, don't bother fighting it, you're destined to lose over the long run, try and take advantage of what A.I. offers and incorporate it into your workflow, but make no mistake about it, this is going to cheapen the value of their work a lot, simply because it's going to become too easy for almost anyone to create a lot of the same work in a fraction of the time and for far less money, whiles having advantages of being far more flexible. I'll give you an example, if you were a game publisher and you wanted a voice actor, you could pay an actor for the job, but that's recorded voices, it's not flexible at all, there's also the factor that it would be a lot more expensive than using A.I. and not as flexible, then what if the publisher wants to do some DLC game contents, they have to go back to the actor to record more voices and pay them? It's easy to see why many will just bypass actors and create their own using A.I. and then there's the final nail in the coffin, what if a publisher wants to create a game with interactive voice conversation? You can't really do that with recordings, that's where A.I. will have a massive advantage. That's just with gaming, a lot of these advantages are going to translate to books, movies, music and countless other things in one form or another, and A.I. is advancing fast that it's going to get more capable in what it can do over the long run. I will say one thing, I knew eventually we were going to create A.I. but I never thought for a second that it would be a threat to the creative industry before it is to manufacturing, but the threat is real to both, just for now it's much easier to do in software over doing A.I. in hardware that needs a physical form, but it's a given that is on its way and that will be a massive threat to a lot of jobs. Personally, I don't see this as a bad thing, things change, and boy is this a massive change, it should evaluate living standards to levels we've never seen before with how much more productive we could become, but the real worry is the system of capitalism we have isn't likely going to cope with it that well, our system is designed around getting everyone to work, that's going to be difficult in a world that A.I. and robotics can likely do more or less any job we do, cheaper, faster and better, there's going to be little to no incentive for businesses to employ humans, and here is the kicker, consumers will be the driving force in all this, we consumers always want goods on the cheap, basically, humans are going to price themselves out of the workforce because we always want goods cheaper, we keep demanding higher wages and better working conditions, whiles A.I. and robotics continues to get better and cheaper, it's easy to see where this is going, we are not going to be competitive in the workforce over the long run, and it only takes one company in any given field to use A.I. and robotics to force the rest to do it just to compete. I really do have to wonder if we humans are ready for this, because I suspect most are not.
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