> it should significantly enhance the human civilization in one or multiple domains (so things like rendering Mandelbrot set infinitely faster does not cut it IMO
I feel compelled to note that "greatness cannot be planned" [1] and often things that significant enhance human civilization didn't seem like that at first.
Thanks for sharing.
This presentation is pretty inspiring to me, but at the same time there is just no obvious way to leverage the claim. How can any management allow subordinates to do things without any objectives to justify?
Generally I buy the reasoning, but maybe that's just I cannot identify any fundamental flaws now.
As I wrote
"AI is amazing. I’ve trained an AI to detect model railroad locomotives and their types. I’m a daily user of AI to let it write code for me."
But AI will take away all coding. Sure, some people will write code, like some people today use a mechanical typewriter. Like some artists use clay. But most of what happens in computers in the future will not be code but executed, self modifying, self optimizing, AI models.
"more and more time to think of what I want build"
This is not how AI will work. It's not I want something to build, the AI will just do the things. There will no longer be things to "build". We will no longer think of code as something that exists, but things that just happen.
You will say "But I could tell the AI what film to create, and some scenes, and a rough story, and it will create that film" - but what if AI creates much better, more powerful, exciting, better films than those you could imagine? Films no human ever thought about?
Again, like the typewriter, some people will tell the AI fragments of a story to create a film. But most media content will be created by AI, for consumptions, on the initiative of AIs, not on the initiative of humans.
In the mid 90s I wrote a philosophy paper at university about an AI that generates random images (trigger by my first digital camera, a Olympus C-800L) and then interprets them (making some estimations on the speed it could do that, generation and interpretation). That AI has basically seen it all, an alien killing JFK, me on the moon, you and me drinking a beer, and things we could never imagine.
[Edit] Like there people writing new games for 8bit computers today. They exist, but it's a niche.
Like those laborers who went jobless after the waves of industrial evolution, they should have been planning earlier for other jobs and skills, rather than focusing solely on the fulfillment from making goods.