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Everyone now understands the value of AI as a tool for code generation, text translation, summarization, photo generation, and a handful of other simple digital tasks.

But what are the AI use cases that might be possible in the future, yet aren't feasible today for one reason or another?

I'm specifically interested in things that require you to squint out into the future and believe in something that isn't a consensus belief today.

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110 sats \ 1 reply \ @cryotosensei 22h

Interesting thought experiment

I would say that given how certain countries around the world have legalised euthanasia, there might come a point in time in which AI capabilities are incorporated into the process to ascertain whether one’s application process for euthanasia should/should not be approved

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @optimism 19h

AI analysis is already used in many expert systems in high end hospitals. However, these aren't of the LLM kind.

100 sats \ 1 reply \ @halalmoney 13 Sep

Automated news scanning to highlight events that are a threat to the status quo.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @optimism 19h

Like https://www.ranenetwork.com/platform/products/threat-intelligence?

I used an earlier version of it to assess safety for my teams and I when I was working globally.

100 sats \ 3 replies \ @kr OP 12 Sep

My first thought was Tesla's Optimus robots using AI models and vision to perform more complex human labor tasks, but even that is flirting with the "already a consensus belief" line.

11 sats \ 2 replies \ @optimism 12 Sep

I liked #1218570 this morning

100 sats \ 1 reply \ @kr OP 12 Sep

Nice, on the surface it looks sort of similar to the Boston Dynamics/Tesla/Figure humanoids, is there a unique angle that this product is taking? Or a new set of use cases that they are aiming to solve?

100 sats \ 0 replies \ @optimism 12 Sep

It's open source, also the hardware. BOM

141 sats \ 0 replies \ @guerratotal 12 Sep

To choose the Prime Minister of Nepal hahahaha #1219095

120 sats \ 0 replies \ @justin_shocknet 12 Sep

Maybe it's because I don't see AI as a new thing in a material sense, because if you distill it down and it's just another algorithm... but I think eventually we're realize what we're actually using it for already... an interface to other algorithms.

We see it in agents and chatbots now, things like MCP, where natural language calls upon external API's in tools which then have their own algorithm or process.

This ability to chain functions from disparate sources makes it a new interface type for applications that are just a representation of many functions.

There's a lot of things we think of in terms of UI now that will probably just become MCP-adjacent tools in a language interface vs. a visual one, image gen vs. Photoshop for example. It's already consolidating time away from the browser (RIP keyword searches and stackoverflow), and voice based bots can obviate screens altogether in many cases.

We're probably less than a generation away from kids not knowing wtf a keyboard and mouse is. A pocket projector that can leverage your eye/hand/body movements, or glasses, will change how much we think about interfacing as the iphone did.

121 sats \ 1 reply \ @JesseJames 12 Sep

Firefighters, have them control strong humanoid robots with 100+ censors, so they (the firefighters) can do their job more safely.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @kr OP 12 Sep

Good idea, could also probably work for police officers

221 sats \ 4 replies \ @k00b 12 Sep

Intelligent, autonomous, self-repairing infrastructure: #1210423

0 sats \ 3 replies \ @kr OP 12 Sep

So AI will be used to make sure all the sensors are always lined up correctly?

10 sats \ 2 replies \ @k00b 12 Sep

yeah but you can generalize it:

infrastructure that doesn't exist because the environment is dynamic, can exist
infrastructure that's high maintenance and expensive because the environment is corrosive, becomes low maintenance and cheap

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @kr OP 12 Sep

When you say infrastructure, what other places could this kind of system work?

Can this solve for plumbing, electricity, sewage, etc...?

20 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 12 Sep

Yes, I think when you make arbitrary things intelligent and have some kind of body the intelligence can control, it allows for a a lot more solutions. e.g. the location of a solar panel.

110 sats \ 0 replies \ @gmd 12 Sep

Albania with a new AI minister to fight corruption lol

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @2053456d48 13 Sep

I think the future of AI is already here in our space exploration, healthcare, supply chain. And AI is replacing humans in many areas of digital tasks and physical work too. It's best time to leverage and utilities the full potential of AI in an ethical and responsible way for our future generations.