I is no secret that hunmans are procreating very fast: the number of people on Earth has more than tripled in my lifetime and I still plan to be around for one more turnover. The real problem is in that people live longer and have ever increasing needs, while their work-span is the same or less than before (until 62-67 years, depending on the country) so someone has to provide for thee rest of their lives. This creates an enormous need for people who will work. And who are they? (Who you gonna call?) Youngsters!
And since youngsters must support not only the old people but also themselves, there is a need for many more of them than just the number of old people. And when they get old, there will be a need for even more new youngsters, and that goes on and on, into a spiral that has readily damaged the environment.
But what if someone/something else is going to do the hard work? To remind ourselves, the definition of (would-be) AI is: "AI is as intelligent as humans (if not more) and it is meant to replace them in jobs that noone else wants to do." So if AI is implemented, finally, we will be able to get rid of the need for youngsters! What a relief!
If someone would nevertheless like to have one, a Chinese manufacturer readily offers a fully humanoid robot daughter. And the good thing about it that it never gets sick, and if it does, you just buy a new part. No need for hospitals and uncertain, expensive and lengthy medical procedures.
With birthrates declining below replacement levels, Japan is already experiencing shortages in the medical and elderly care sector. Immigration and developments in robotic technology could mitigate this trend and other labor shortages. But the former goes against Japanese cultural imperatives, whereas the latter may be too late in coming. The prospects for Japan don't look good....
Karl Pfeifer Yes, the same in Croatia. Our birthrate was never just enough for sustaining, ever since Yougoslavia, but after 1991 young people start leaving the country for good and the trend becomes only stronger ever since, so in past 10 years we lost 10% of population, mostly young!
This by itself means we would need to live a bit more modestly. It would not be so bad for our mental health and perhaps this is the only way to go into the sustainable future (plusminus AI). On the other hand, some countries produce people like on an assembly line. For example one particular large country creates one whole Croatia every 2.5 months. So why do we even bother thinking about our negative trend in which we lost 10% over 10 years?
There is a new development since yestarday 15.07.2024. China has presented humanid robot 180 cm height and 80 kg in weight, which is able to do stuff around the house and can "help elderly people". Now elderly or not, if you need help, how would you feel if they send you a robot instead of a person? What could be an explanation of that? Like: "You know, out of 8.5 billion people, and in the midst of an exponential growth of population, even though we have no idea what to do with all of them - in fact many are homeless, jobless or hungry every minute of the day, we still could not find a single one that would care to help you so we are sending you this robot. Isn't that just great? Please do not forget to insert batteries in it."
Is this the future? Enlarging the fraction of AI robots in the population?
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