> I wonder why all these AI people are trying to create things that will displace my means of earning a living instead of something that will create application

> I wonder why all these AI people are trying to create things that will displace my means of earning a living instead of something that will create applications? I think this has to do with overestimating the power of current ML techniques combined with severely underestimating the complexity of jobs like writing. This tends to result in solutions that "overreach" and end up disappointing. If we scale back a bit, we could build some really fantastic tools that work with people. One great example of this is the movie Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse. In order to draw the comic-book lines on faces, they used a tool that would learn over time from the artists themselves. It would guess, the artist would adjust, it would learn. This is the perfect fit for ML: try to help the human, not replace them.