Prediction is from James Miller: https://twitter.com/JimDMiller/status/1741989384881058050
James Miller: Prediction for 2024: Most well-educated people will think that within 10 years AI is going to be better at intellectual work than 99% of humans, and this expectation will have profound effects including reducing the importance parents put on their kids doing well in school.
This resolves to YES if a majority of college educated people would answer this way on a survey, or we would reasonably expect them to do so.
Resolves to NO otherwise.
If the answer is sufficiently unclear and market price reflects this, market will be resolved via a poll asking whether the worded claim is true.
@JamesBaker3 The part that I'm having trouble modeling here is how much this is penetrating the awareness of the average college educated person. Perhaps 25% odds isn't wrong?
But I'm wondering if mostly people don't think much about AI and if you were to sample randomly from college educated people they'd be more like "What??", rather than "Oh yeah, that's what I'd expect." People certainly aren't acting like they think humans will be obsolete in less than 10 years?
@ChrisPrichard I wonder if there have been any existing surveys that would be relevant to this one?
I model people more going "10 years is far away, sure!" without pushing that belief into their life
Just wondering out loud: I keep thinking this question should be priced way higher, and am wondering about the perspectives of NO holders. I wonder if there's a focus split here, with the "people will think...99%" folks betting yes and the "profound effects" folks are betting no?
I think people will be confused and contradictory about the effects in their own lives, but that they'll readily believe the premise (in survey form) even if they don't know what to do about it practically. NO holders, what's your story?
Would this be based off survey responses or revealed preferences? Aka if people say they do believe in A(G)I but 529 plan contributions don't meaningfully budge, would that count as a Yes?
Is this for the US alone, for developed countries, or for the world as a whole?
Does "most" mean 50.01% or, say, 60%?
Do we know what percent of well educated people believe in this today?
I'm talking about the title. I only made my comment because the description didn't match the title. I made a similar suggestion on another market about Argentina, where the title and description were mismatched. If correcting the title doesn't add any extra verbosity, it should be required
Yeah I noticed that too. Even then, I took issue with the wording, it's not that important but I'm someone who wants to change the perception that attending 25% less school converts you from an enlightened "well-educated" (or simply "educated") person to an "under-educated" (or even worse, "uneducated") person
@ZviMowshowitz Does the resolution here depend at all on the "reducing the importance parents put on their kids doing well in school" part? (Which seems oddly specific and non-load-bearing to the central claim, to me)
I believe that if a well-educated person utilizes artificial intelligence in their work, the results will correspondingly be of high quality. If a person with lower intelligence attempts to generate something, then accordingly, their result will be primitive. I also want to add that there are numerous resources like https://customwriting.com/ where intelligent individuals work and produce quality work, which looks much better than what CHatGPT produces.
This hinges a lot on what constitutes "intellectual work" ...in many domains AI already exceeds humans. But Miller's explanation that it would reduce the importance parents put on their kids doing well in school suggests, at minimum, that "most human variation in intellectual skills will be economically unimportant." I think this unlikely.
I think it's more unlikely that a majority of college educated people act on this, although I'm less certain they wouldn't say so on a survey.