Go ahead, expand on that. If you have a functional AI that delivers on the majority of what AI companies promise, can you explain why you would not be better off asking it what to do in most cases?
It's certainly possible, and even likely, that AI companies will fail to deliver, but let's assume for a moment that they don't crash and burn.
I am so confused by this. Why does the existence of an AI that can tell you what to do mean that knowledge is useless? This is like saying teaching calculus to children is useless because every integral they can solve has been solvable by WolframAlpha since 2009.
Why bother learning drawing at all, if an AI can draw better than you? Presumably because you, yourself, want to draw.
A lot of people want to draw because they enjoy it, but they also enjoy showing it to others and seeing them enjoy it.
AI art currently mostly sucks, but if we solve that, there's an infinite supply of art that will be more to your friends taste than anything you want produce.
And as to Wolfram alpha: people here, on this site, argue that mental math is unnecessary because of calculators.
This is just alien thinking to me and probably many others. You are saying that you are willing to submit your whole agency to an AI because it makes better decisions? What makes the life worth living then?
AI is starting to outdo humans at forecasting events and trends. If you run a hedge fund, for example, and you have an AI that makes decisions that lead to 10% better returns, would you rely on your brain? What about a clothing company following fashion trends? A military predicting troop movement?
As long as there's an element of competition, you need to take advantage and remove the human from the loop if they're the bottleneck.
Add to that the tendency of people to take the solution that's easy in the moment, and not the long term best option, and yes, I think a lot of people will outsource their thinking.
As for what makes life worth living? Enriching the wealthy, if you look at the actions if the tech industry. The world we're heading to seems like a hell.
Go ahead, expand on that. If you have a functional AI that delivers on the majority of what AI companies promise, can you explain why you would not be better off asking it what to do in most cases?
It's certainly possible, and even likely, that AI companies will fail to deliver, but let's assume for a moment that they don't crash and burn.
I am so confused by this. Why does the existence of an AI that can tell you what to do mean that knowledge is useless? This is like saying teaching calculus to children is useless because every integral they can solve has been solvable by WolframAlpha since 2009.
Why bother learning drawing at all, if an AI can draw better than you? Presumably because you, yourself, want to draw.
A lot of people want to draw because they enjoy it, but they also enjoy showing it to others and seeing them enjoy it.
AI art currently mostly sucks, but if we solve that, there's an infinite supply of art that will be more to your friends taste than anything you want produce.
And as to Wolfram alpha: people here, on this site, argue that mental math is unnecessary because of calculators.
> If you have a functional AI that delivers on the majority of what AI companies promise
A good education would let you realise how unlikely this is.
This is just alien thinking to me and probably many others. You are saying that you are willing to submit your whole agency to an AI because it makes better decisions? What makes the life worth living then?
AI is starting to outdo humans at forecasting events and trends. If you run a hedge fund, for example, and you have an AI that makes decisions that lead to 10% better returns, would you rely on your brain? What about a clothing company following fashion trends? A military predicting troop movement?
As long as there's an element of competition, you need to take advantage and remove the human from the loop if they're the bottleneck.
Add to that the tendency of people to take the solution that's easy in the moment, and not the long term best option, and yes, I think a lot of people will outsource their thinking.
As for what makes life worth living? Enriching the wealthy, if you look at the actions if the tech industry. The world we're heading to seems like a hell.
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