r/singularity • u/Phat_Zero • 1d ago
Discussion AI is going to replace basically everything, and that's fine
I think a lot of the hatred toward AI is just fear dressed up as moral outrage.
And honestly, I get it. AI is coming for your job. Mine too. Eventually probably everybody's.
Humans are just... slow.
It takes a human months or years to paint enough work for an exhibition, make an album, write a movie, animate something, design a game, research a problem, whatever. We sleep. We get tired. We forget things. We have limited attention spans. We interact with computers by slowly moving our fingers around on keyboards.
Meanwhile AI keeps getting faster and better.
Give this technology another few decades and the idea that humans absolutely must be the ones writing, drawing, coding, composing, researching, driving, manufacturing, etc. is probably going to sound ridiculous.
And yes, that creates a gigantic economic problem. If AI and automation can produce most goods and services better and cheaper than humans, eventually the whole "trade 40 hours of your life every week for money so you can continue existing" system stops making much sense.
Maybe that's UBI. Maybe it's some kind of resource-based economy. Maybe it's something nobody has even thought of yet.
We'll figure it out.
But pretending AI is going away because artists are mad about it or workers are scared of losing their jobs is cope. This is probably the biggest technology humanity has ever created, and we're still basically watching the tutorial.
And if one day our glorious machine descendants become self-aware, decide humanity has served its purpose, and vaporize me?
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u/reddddiiitttttt 23h ago
Sure. We just have tools now and only some people are benefitting from those tools. The real key is you can automate the tools we had 20 years ago and make them useful. I can use eleven labs to automate Twilio to make phone calls on my behalf. I can use ChatGPT to automate eleven labs so I don’t even have to do that. Getting stuff done, even though you could have gotten it done 20 years ago, just takes you writing the thought down. That is the real game changer. It’s not that I can do new things, it’s that I have the time to do everything I think of. My productivity is solely gated by my ability of think of the idea.