n4807g -- as robotics and AI/automated processes progressively and relentlessly supersede both the economics and the capabilities of human labor and accordingly supplant human labor throughout the economy, then, just for the sake of having consumers of products and services, not to mention not having more and more (tens of) millions relegated to abject poverty/starvation/the like, there will have to be a guaranteed income for humans, and it's going to have to come from somewhere; with human labor out of the mix, having a few owning the bulk of the means of production, and most owning virtually none or none, simply will not work
as for AI -- within just the last year, the breakthroughs have been, to borrow a Trumpism, YUGE, with ongoing further development proceeding exponentially -- and accordingly, our remaining time as the dominant form of life on this planet has just in that time grown much shorter -- as just one recent for example, they now have a self-teaching/learning neural net AI routine which scored in the 75th percentile on a standard human intelligence test -- which means that within the next very few years at the outside they'll have one that never doesn't, in the blink of an eye (or, perhaps as long as a few seconds), complete and score perfectly on any such test we can devise -- another major milepost along that way recently having been Google's dual complementary neural net self-taught AI routine which not only defeated but annihilated the world Go champion nearly a year ago ([linked in] http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=121150619 and preceding and following, http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=120159431 and preceding and following) -- no longer is it just theoretical/aspirational; we've crossed the threshold
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