[anonzzzies]

I think the immediate problem with AI is none of the sci-fi stuff (which, by the way, has been in sci-fi for many decades and is nothing revolutionary or new; we always expected to go there, just the timelines seem to have compressed, although not really either; most 60-70s scifi set AGI stuff in the begin 90s and begin 00s); I think it's the entire world changing into a helpdesk experience. Everything you try to do, from making a doctors appointment to calling 911 to ordering at a restaurant will be, rather sooner than later, a kafkaesque loop you cannot get out of with the AI patiently 'helping' you while completely missing the point and you getting more and more distressed without any chance of speaking to a human. This is already the case for many things, but I am willing to bet that even the suicide helpline will be ran by AI within 5-10 years.

[magospietato]

Don't need to wait a decade, or even a half, for AI mental healthcare. It's already been tried.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/may/31/eating-di...

[anonzzzies]

Eventually it will 'win' though.

[pawelmurias]

If the AI bots provide better health care then the psychotherapy meat puppets won't it be a win? Those kind of people are most commonly language model kind of humans with little general intelligence logical reasoning so easy to replace by a LLM. People often become psychologists to treat their own mental issues so even the meat puppets share the weakness of suffering from hallucinations.

[rileycantread]

>Those kind of people are most commonly language model kind of humans with little general intelligence logical reasoning so easy to replace by a LLM.

What negative experience do you have with specifically people who are psychiatrists (not a fan of the practice either) that justifies totally dehumanising them like this?

[corethree]

Profit Incentives. By nature humans are a contradictory creatures capable of both good and evil. In the medical field the evil part gets maximized because they see so many patients they get lazy and lose the desire to do good and they also lose sensitivity against avoiding evil. So what happens is they will lie for more money. Very common.

Dehumanization is a term about getting rid of the evil and the good because being human is about both evil and good. That's not what the parent is doing. You're the one interpreting humanity through a dehumanizing lens. You should expect immorality and incompetence from humanity by default. Any other view is dehumanizing.

[anonzzzies]

I put 'win' between '' as I specifically didn't mean that type of win. That would obviously be a win. I mean 'win' in that we will replace people despite a worse outcome. If AI bots are better it's a real win, but they aren't yet and we don't know if they will be (there is hope of course).

[couchand]

Please keep the discourse on HN civil.

[cryptoz]

Reminds me of the healthcare bots in Idiocracy.

[orangepurple]

Americans would be wise not to give up their guns under any circumstances

[epgui]

Sigh. (From Canada.)