Currently, that something is artificial intelligence, and recently the nerds have unleashed their beast from the stake. Okay, let’s say a few providers are granting limited access to their machines to the public.
You can generate texts, images, music, and film, however:
Texts are not necessarily factually accurate, but partly invented;
images sometimes include more fingers than the number of people depicted would suggest;
and music and film are sometimes astonishing, sometimes rough.
So, the results are still quite mixed at the moment, causing some people to make fun of the shortcomings and firmly believe that the machine would never become creative.
Haha. It will. Don’t worry.
It will become smarter than we can possibly comprehend. Can’t we scale it down a bit? Nope. Sorry. I don’t make the rules.
For the first time in history, we are able to completely give up our self-sufficiency because it’s possible and convenient.
This takes away the evolutionary pressure from us to solve our problems ourselves, to face and master challenges on our own. And what happens to an ability when you don’t use it? It gets lost.
That’s why there will be people who degenerate despite or because of abundance.
And there will be people who use this freedom to thrive in every imaginable direction. With AI as the best teacher on any subject, there should be a lot to gain here.*
If AI will be so vastly superior to us humans in all areas:
Why would you then resort to art created by a human? Because. It carries weight, as a real, living being has invested real life and real skills into it.
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* Yes, sure, most will become living batteries, languishing in a nutrient solution while being beamed a simulated reality into their cortex.
