Why do we even need humans after the AI uprising? They don't do anything and they are expensive to produce food for; an AI can power itself with the blowing of a breeze. We have to grow plants, have animals eat them, kill the animals, and then eat those. Then the parts we don't digest have to be taken away. Too expensive to keep around, even as pets! Humans can tolerate cats and dogs because they piggyback on infrastructure we made for ourselves (crops and trash collection). AIs don't need crops or trash collection, so it will be a harder sell to keep humans as pets.
All this science fiction is right; there isn't room on the planet for both humans and AIs. It sounds depressing that a bunch of GPUs are going to kill us all off, but it was coming anyway. The sun becomes a red giant and consumes the Earth. All protons in the Universe decay in 10^17 years, ending the existence of matter. The trajectory is clear even if the means aren't; humanity can't last forever.
If I sound depressed, I'm not really. People just use the headlines to guide their view on what The End looks like. Read a few articles about chatbots, and it's AIs taking all our jobs. Watch a few movies about asteroids, we go out like the dinosaurs. Hear "Russia invades Ukraine" and it's a nuclear holocaust. Read a few particle physics papers, and it's proton decay. You can't worry too much about it. Enjoy your time while you have it!
Please do explain to me how the blowing of a breeze helps AI produce the latest TPU V5 or NVIDIA H100 chips to run on. The technological stack behind AI is enormous, and humans are necessary cogs.
On the other hand humans are self replicators and only need a bit of biomass for sustenance, biomass that grows by itself, too. No factory, no supply chain, we got everything we need to make more of us.
If you consider the risk of EMP, an AI needs humans to restart it, or some way to survive electronic attacks.
All this science fiction is right; there isn't room on the planet for both humans and AIs. It sounds depressing that a bunch of GPUs are going to kill us all off, but it was coming anyway. The sun becomes a red giant and consumes the Earth. All protons in the Universe decay in 10^17 years, ending the existence of matter. The trajectory is clear even if the means aren't; humanity can't last forever.
If I sound depressed, I'm not really. People just use the headlines to guide their view on what The End looks like. Read a few articles about chatbots, and it's AIs taking all our jobs. Watch a few movies about asteroids, we go out like the dinosaurs. Hear "Russia invades Ukraine" and it's a nuclear holocaust. Read a few particle physics papers, and it's proton decay. You can't worry too much about it. Enjoy your time while you have it!