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Autopilot Unstucker: Your job will be to travel around to various roads in your city where an AI driven vehicle has gotten stuck and move it. Robot Janitor: as

Autopilot Unstucker: Your job will be to travel around to various roads in your city where an AI driven vehicle has gotten stuck and move it. Robot Janitor: as more and more robots take over menial jobs someone’s gotta clean and maintain them. Virtual Friend: become a friend to a random person online. Chat with them, play games, etc. will be more and more common as the loneliness epidemic grows exponentially over the next few decades. Prompt Expert: a person who comes up with better and more creative prompts for AI generated content. Including AI generated images, music, and likely movies and shows, architecture and design in the future.

passion__desire 4y ago
Experience designer. (for the last one with multimedia experiences)
- more_corn 4y ago
  Nice one
Buttons840 4y ago
> Virtual Friend: become a friend to a random person online. Chat with them, play games, etc. will be more and more common as the loneliness epidemic grows exponentially over the next few decades. How about "Virtual Non-Romantic Matchmaker". Pair up lonely people with similar interests who just want to be friends and play games, etc. Wonder how much of this could be solved by removing the automation around matchmaking in online games. I used to find a server with a good ping and mods / rules that I liked and then I'd usually see the same people day after day, eventually people would start saying "hi" to me or laughing at my gameplay even though I made minimal effort to connect with them.
- donutdan4114 4y ago
  Huh, actually it would be interesting if online matchmaking in games took into account more of what you’re looking for in a friend. Like if it prioritized matching you with people in similar age brackets and maybe could take into account other interests… so it’d be like the people you’re playing with would make someday likely friends. They could show your match score so you would immediately know if another player had similar interests… I kinda wish that existed!!
  - tinym 4y ago
    The skill-based matchmaking that's popular today is optimized for setting up a fair game, ie. theres a roughly 50/50 chance of either side winning. It makes logical sense, but it turns out nobody actually wants a fair match!
    - Buttons840 4y ago
      The old style of games had privately hosted servers, each able to host about 30 people. These games allowed people to drop in and out at will. Newer games are more match focused, with shorter matches and a focus on players completing matches. It would still be nice to join a small pool of 30 players and create smaller matches from that pool, but this would require people in the pool to sometimes wait for the next match to form. Balancing would not be hard, just make sure skill is as evenly distributed as possible. All this would allow match focused gameplay while keeping the pool of players small enough to build a community. Someone recently commented on HN that online cheating is a social problem, and can be solved by playing with a curated group of players. I agree, and think this could also help with cheating.
jmrm 4y ago
> Autopilot Unstucker I think this could be a job for the same people who work when a tree fall in the middle of the road and they remove it.
DangitBobby 4y ago
Ah "Virtual Friend" reminds me of FriendProxy from Maniac: > Another equally depressing tech-inspired service in Maniac is called FriendProxy, a fictional company that lets you hire random strangers to pretend to be your close friends. As one customer notes, “I have real friends, this is just more convenient.” Let's go ahead and add AdBuddy to your list: > Targeted advertising takes its logical next step in Maniac with AdBuddy, a company that lets you pay for other products and services by listening to some schlub read advertisements to you. Can’t afford a train ticket? Ride with an AdBuddy. Hungry? AdBuddy will pay for your lunch — if you listen to advertisements while you eat. 1. https://www.inverse.com/article/49305-maniac-netflix-adbuddy-friendproxy-depressing-tech https://www.inverse.com/article/49305-maniac-netflix-adbuddy...
- trenning 4y ago
  Maniac is a great watch. Really hit some good dystopian/alternative future vibes.
- undeIays 4y ago
  Next you'll tell we have to suffer ads and promotional marketing for rewards or donations just to check out at the pharmacy!
- bananaowl 4y ago
  Is advertising to people without money a good business?
  - baremetal 4y ago
    it is if people are given UBI.
ekianjo 4y ago
> Virtual Friend Virtual AI Friends that are better than humans on how they deal with you are more likely to exist.
- scaramanga 4y ago
  Which will continue to be more of a commentary on the continuing decline and collapse of society, and the ability of people to seamlessly enter delusional states when given only the most superficially convincing data, than it is on the advancements of "AI" :)
- speedgoose 4y ago
  Fore sure. Replika is already doing pretty well for many people.
- more_corn 4y ago
  People never behave how we are supposed to behave. AI will be way better at behaving properly. The minute AI lovers exist a huge percentage of the population is going to give up on human lovers entirely. No cheating, no fighting, emotionally stable. Proper conflict resolution. Although AI does get weird sometimes.
more_corn 4y ago
Love the unstuck er. There was a street in San Fran where way mo cars kept getting stuck. https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/14/22726534/waymo-autonomous-vehicles-stuck-san-francisco-dead-end https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/14/22726534/waymo-autonomou...
spookierookie 4y ago
"as the loneliness epidemic grows exponentially over the next few decades" hasn't that happened already?
CM30 4y ago
> Virtual Friend: become a friend to a random person online. Chat with them, play games, etc. will be more and more common as the loneliness epidemic grows exponentially over the next few decades. Reminds me of those services in Japan where you can hire people to act as relatives or simply be there to talk to. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rental_family_service https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rental_family_service I suspect online versions either exist already, or will exist soon enough.

passion__desire 4y ago

Experience designer. (for the last one with multimedia experiences)

more_corn 4y ago
Nice one

Buttons840 4y ago

> Virtual Friend: become a friend to a random person online. Chat with them, play games, etc. will be more and more common as the loneliness epidemic grows exponentially over the next few decades. How about "Virtual Non-Romantic Matchmaker". Pair up lonely people with similar interests who just want to be friends and play games, etc. Wonder how much of this could be solved by removing the automation around matchmaking in online games. I used to find a server with a good ping and mods / rules that I liked and then I'd usually see the same people day after day, eventually people would start saying "hi" to me or laughing at my gameplay even though I made minimal effort to connect with them.

donutdan4114 4y ago
Huh, actually it would be interesting if online matchmaking in games took into account more of what you’re looking for in a friend. Like if it prioritized matching you with people in similar age brackets and maybe could take into account other interests… so it’d be like the people you’re playing with would make someday likely friends. They could show your match score so you would immediately know if another player had similar interests… I kinda wish that existed!!
- tinym 4y ago
  The skill-based matchmaking that's popular today is optimized for setting up a fair game, ie. theres a roughly 50/50 chance of either side winning. It makes logical sense, but it turns out nobody actually wants a fair match!
  - Buttons840 4y ago
    The old style of games had privately hosted servers, each able to host about 30 people. These games allowed people to drop in and out at will. Newer games are more match focused, with shorter matches and a focus on players completing matches. It would still be nice to join a small pool of 30 players and create smaller matches from that pool, but this would require people in the pool to sometimes wait for the next match to form. Balancing would not be hard, just make sure skill is as evenly distributed as possible. All this would allow match focused gameplay while keeping the pool of players small enough to build a community. Someone recently commented on HN that online cheating is a social problem, and can be solved by playing with a curated group of players. I agree, and think this could also help with cheating.

jmrm 4y ago

> Autopilot Unstucker I think this could be a job for the same people who work when a tree fall in the middle of the road and they remove it.

DangitBobby 4y ago

Ah "Virtual Friend" reminds me of FriendProxy from Maniac: > Another equally depressing tech-inspired service in Maniac is called FriendProxy, a fictional company that lets you hire random strangers to pretend to be your close friends. As one customer notes, “I have real friends, this is just more convenient.” Let's go ahead and add AdBuddy to your list: > Targeted advertising takes its logical next step in Maniac with AdBuddy, a company that lets you pay for other products and services by listening to some schlub read advertisements to you. Can’t afford a train ticket? Ride with an AdBuddy. Hungry? AdBuddy will pay for your lunch — if you listen to advertisements while you eat. 1. https://www.inverse.com/article/49305-maniac-netflix-adbuddy-friendproxy-depressing-tech https://www.inverse.com/article/49305-maniac-netflix-adbuddy...

trenning 4y ago
Maniac is a great watch. Really hit some good dystopian/alternative future vibes.
undeIays 4y ago
Next you'll tell we have to suffer ads and promotional marketing for rewards or donations just to check out at the pharmacy!
bananaowl 4y ago
Is advertising to people without money a good business?
- baremetal 4y ago
  it is if people are given UBI.

ekianjo 4y ago

> Virtual Friend Virtual AI Friends that are better than humans on how they deal with you are more likely to exist.

scaramanga 4y ago
Which will continue to be more of a commentary on the continuing decline and collapse of society, and the ability of people to seamlessly enter delusional states when given only the most superficially convincing data, than it is on the advancements of "AI" :)
speedgoose 4y ago
Fore sure. Replika is already doing pretty well for many people.
more_corn 4y ago
People never behave how we are supposed to behave. AI will be way better at behaving properly. The minute AI lovers exist a huge percentage of the population is going to give up on human lovers entirely. No cheating, no fighting, emotionally stable. Proper conflict resolution. Although AI does get weird sometimes.

more_corn 4y ago

Love the unstuck er. There was a street in San Fran where way mo cars kept getting stuck. https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/14/22726534/waymo-autonomous-vehicles-stuck-san-francisco-dead-end https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/14/22726534/waymo-autonomou...

spookierookie 4y ago

"as the loneliness epidemic grows exponentially over the next few decades" hasn't that happened already?

CM30 4y ago

> Virtual Friend: become a friend to a random person online. Chat with them, play games, etc. will be more and more common as the loneliness epidemic grows exponentially over the next few decades. Reminds me of those services in Japan where you can hire people to act as relatives or simply be there to talk to. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rental_family_service https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rental_family_service I suspect online versions either exist already, or will exist soon enough.