People worry that AI will take over what humans should be doing. It’s more profound than that. Using AI has helped me understand what actually makes us uniquely human. Love, creativity, leadership, fear, individualism, beauty. Let’s lean in to what only we can do and let that drive everything else.
@manton With all due respect, I think those concerns apply to the vast majority of the uneducated population who depends on precarious jobs that will probably will vanish.
If I say something like that to someone who takes 4 hours to arrive at the office, he/she will be offended, because these "ugly, ignorant" people don't have the time and money to find the beauty of the world and themselves, occupied they are with surviving.
I think it all comes down to what priorities do we want to set up.
@gustavo I'm not really thinking about whether jobs disappear, but how we can contribute to existing jobs that use our strengths as humans. Everyone wants to do meaningful work. Basically: for any job, think about what robots could do, then do more of the other thing they can't do. Every job has many layers.
@manton I agree completely. I have greatly enjoyed using AI for various tasks, but I consistently find that it struggles with interpretation. In the humanities, we often talk about the varieties of interpretation and viewpoint. Despite having access to artifacts of those viewpoints through their datasets, the AI doesn't have access to viewpoints (uniquely human) themselves—and thus it struggles to interpret in creative and interesting ways.
