Hacker News Reader

Comment by phpisthebest | Hacker News Reader

The path of creative AI has to be the most Ironic story of this whole technological tale.

The AI Utopia that was imaged was a world of AI robots all doing our labor so everyone can sit around being "creative" and artist, no on would have to clean the streets, pickup trash, work in that factory etc... We would have a utopia where humans would just be free loving creatives all sitting around painting, writing their great novels, etc...

The reality it, Humans will doing that manual labor for decades to come has AI replaces all creative jobs in a much quicker time...

View on HN

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moravec%27s_paradox

The idea that higher intelligence has only been around 200,000 or so years and is far less refined than motor intelligence which has a good 500 million years of encoded information.

That is indeed interesting. For years, there was talk of manufacturing, trade jobs and "hands-on" work going away. 4 year college degrees were the only answer. Interesting that it might be the opposite in the end.

Lot of the upcoming automation is going to be on the soft skill side. Those with kids now need to reset how they think of trade jobs and hands on work. It should be an option that is considered and certainly not frowned upon.

> Those with kids now need to reset how they think of trade jobs and hands on work.

This is already true even in the absence of AI.

#LearnToDig will be the new rally cry...

The problem is we have spent at least 3 generations looking down on physical labor, first world societies are in for some bad times. For me it looks like those bad times will get really bad in about 20 years, right when I should on a beach enjoying retirement, instead who knows....

Utopia like that requires people in power to work toward it, not their own bank account state.

No tech is going to change that.

Utopia is not possible in the first place, that is what I find amusing in this whole story... the number of people that believe it is.

Self Interest is core to the human experience people deny that at their own peril, it is why I believe in capitalism and reject socialism, i understand that all persons at all times work in their self interest anyone that claims their are not is lying to themselves.

Read Thomas Hobbes. Really read it and try to absorb it.

I prefer Locke

Reply on news.ycombinator.com