I think there will be immense social dislocation as all white collar workers simultaneously get 100x more productive virtually overnight without a corresponding increase in work to do.
At the same time more people will be able to build on their ideas than ever. A few things that seem obvious to me would be:
- Private AI tutors that can go at a student's pace will revolutionise schooling (say goodbye to a teacher shortage anywhere)
- Helpdesk work will vanish
- Art will explode like nothing we've seen before. I'm already experimenting with writing stories in collaboration with AI and this is only the beginning.
- Numerous improvements in a huge number of machines and data analysis in particular will likely get much better.
- Due to widespread white collar work unemployment almost certain to be UBI's springing up all over the developed world.
- Far more workers will end up back in physical jobs of various types. Environmental clean up, farm work, construction, etc.
- Vastly more software will be built as the effective price of building will go way down.
- Robots is another area I'm interested in seeing what happens. My understanding is that building robot hardware that is useful is much easier than the software. So if this allows for much more rapid software development we couod see an explosion on robotics too.
I'm more certain of some of these than others but those are the ones off the top of my head. Out atm but you could also ask the Chatbot haha.
