If you said "hey I'm bored let's add more squares. Let's move some pieces around or maybe change their movement rules" or "let's play checkers instead" then a human could adapt to this situation pretty easily. A reinforcement learning model like AlphaZero would be like "Whoa whoa whoa not so fast. Let's fire up the GPU cluster." Maybe one day we won't need GPU clusters. But ultimately we're the ones who create all of these tools and decide how to use them.

I honestly think a lot of people in their twenties already do this. They’re not making much money but seem to be making enough to just have fun and pursue other things.

My brother has figured he can make a great living out of gardening for people. Yes robots will probably do this one day, but will they to the same level ? Really who knows anymore?

I’m actually sure a lot of the more wealthy people he works for kind of also just like him and his company too. He’s a youthful fun guy with a lot of creative ideas.

The silicone value push for eternal life via the singularity and trips to Mars seems to be mostly fuelled by cults and the need to keep shareholder happy / profits coming in.

I don’t know if anyone else cares that much, including the bots themselves. Time will tell.

Transformer models work on data. Text, images, and motor control can all be fed into the pit.

> people still use oil paint while photography exists

It's not at all the same medium. Unless you consider that the whole point of oil painting is to imitate realistic pictures...