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Yes, it is another round of not that smart people giving interviews and telling the masses that AI is gonna replace them all.
Geoffrey Hinton, a Nobel Prize winner in physics, called a "godfather of AI" have given an interview for LBC radio in UK and to honest just made a complete fool of himself, yet again telling the world that AI is gonna take all the jobs. The quote from him was "being a plumber will last longer than being a lawyer", yet he provided no explanation how software (as AI in fact is) is gonna come down to your house and fix a broken pipe.
To be fair, he mentioned the problem every single thinking person have raised so far regarding AI, if AI takes over all the jobs, what will be the source of taxes for the governments? But, of course, he provided no explanation to that one. The interviewer, Andrew Marr, sunk a bit lower with a sentence that is so stupid it is worth mentioning. According to Marr, the source of the taxes will be AI companies, who will be "making all the profits". What profits??? We just established, there will be no one to pay for anything...
Geoffrey Hinton mentioned that we "already see lawyers being replaced by AI" and it is gonna spread to all other jobs. But he meant the lawyers who got caught mentioning the made up laws or cases in the courts or... some other lawyers? Fine, some simple admin jobs can be in the future replaced by AI (when it will become reliable enough), but still, how this AI is gonna fix my broken pipe?
Even if there were robots capable of replacing the broken pipe (which do not exist yet), even if there was software good enough to guide that robot on how to fix it (which does not exist yet), even simple plumbing job could involve some drilling in the walls, some plastering, some digging in the ground, perhaps working with other parts of the whole system. And a single robot (we do not have) is gonna do all of those jobs, right? Without that robot (or several of them) AI cannot do a single thing to fix the pipe.
How AI is gonna replace the surgeons? Lifeguards? Firefighters? Policemen? Gardeners? Lumberjacks? Nurses who will take care of you in the hospital? Using a completely separate technology, we still do not have? And who exactly is gonna pay for creating this technology? Right now not a single AI-involved company is making any money off of it, the market is full of offers of providers of AI, but demand is quite small and superficial. You can hear every day that AI is gonna revolutionise this sector or that sector of the economy, but... has it though?
OpenAI is in a financially critical state and expecting to pump about 30 more billion into their product. The solution? Advertising! Oh yes, this will bring an audience to your product, I’m sure. And, by the way, if your audience will have no jobs, the advertising source of money will dry up quickly, so what is the plan B for AI? Big companies, like Google, Apple, Microsoft can lose billions experimenting with AI, but so far none of them have any clear idea how to exactly cover the costs of it.
AI is a very nice tool, in some narrow fields of expertise (like programming) it can be very helpful to speed up the workflow, but would many people be willing to pay millions for that service (which perhaps would be closer to real costs of maintaining it)? Doubt it. TikTok, YouTube and other platforms can make money by providing it to the "influencers", but take a wild guess what will happen if the audience of those "influencers" will stop paying for the privilege to watch them "influence"?
And we are back to the first question - what will be the source of the money for the whole thing? Geoffrey Hinton is convinced that AI now have the consciousness, which is cute, but it costs billions to run and have no clear use yet. Just like with virtual reality in the past, it is an impressive technology, which so far have very little use in the real world. It can be a helpful tool in some fields, but so far just a tool. And a very expensive one too.
29-01-2026
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