I've never totally understood this binary moment when AGI does "everything" better. How can one even define everything?
Our AI partner could be the most intelligent mathematician or researcher. That's great then we can bounce ideas off of them and they can help us realize our professional / creative ambitions.
Sure if our goal is to maximize profit then maybe we can outsource the decisions to an AI agent.
You can get a computer to create infinite remixes of songs. I haven't seen that replacing music producers doing the same.
When everyone can just press a button and have better music automatically generated, based on their exact preferences inferred from their DNA or an fMRI brain scan, what are your creative ambitions?
I'm obviously not talking about today's limited (public) AI, but far into the future, like in 5 years.
* whether or not that is actually the case is irrelevant
So much about music appreciation is about knowing the artist and for example knowing that what they sing about is shaped by their personal history allowing you to identify with it.
A lot about the appreciation of art is the process and the intention behind the artwork. The final image or sond is just one part.
I find it very difficult to define "better" when we're talking about art.
That's the easy stuff! That's the stuff ML has been successful doing for a decade or more.