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If I could harness the power of AI to outsource my tasks, reading bedtime stories to my kids would be the last thing on that list. That's cherished time. Those

If I could harness the power of AI to outsource my tasks, reading bedtime stories to my kids would be the last thing on that list. That's cherished time. Those are lifelong memories. Those are the moments we are supposed to be striving to have more of. It saddens me to think of the amount of engineering work that went into creating that example while entirely missing the point. These are the moments we are supposed to be working towards to have more of. If we outsource them to an AI company because we are as as overworked and underpaid as ever...what's the point of it all?

steve_adams_86 3y ago
I agree. I worry my culture is truly losing sight of what’s good in life. I don’t mean that as in “I know what’s best and everyone’s doing it wrong”, because I fully acknowledge that I can’t know what’s best for others. Yet I watch my friends and family work hard at things they don’t claim to value, I watch them lose life to scrolling and tv and movies they don’t actually enjoy, and I watch them lament that they don’t see their friends as much as they’d like, they don’t have enough time at home, kids are so much work, etc. We have major priority issues from what I can see. If we want to live our lives more but put an AI to work doing something we tend to claim we place very high in our value hierarchy, we’re effectively inviting death into life. We’re forfeiting something we love. That’s incredibly sad to me.
- haxiomic 3y ago
  This mirrors my feelings also, thank you for expressing it. It's so alien to me to see people trying to optimize way connection with their family and friends; to me that is what life _is_
optimalsolver 3y ago
The AI takes care of the bedtime stories, giving you more time for video games.
- sebzim4500 3y ago
  Deepmind can play the video games for you, too
gen220 3y ago
I remember in the "microsoft office <> Generative AI" demo, one of the motivating examples was a parent generating a graduation party speech for her child... [1] The first half of the video is demonstrating how the parent can take something as special as a party celebrating a major milestone and automate it into a soulless box-check – while editing some segments to make it look like their own voice. Definite black mirror vibes. [1]: https://youtu.be/ebls5x-gb0s?t=224 https://youtu.be/ebls5x-gb0s?t=224
PretzelPirate 3y ago
I viewed this differently. This wasn't a parent having an AI step in to read their kid a bedtime story, it was a parent and a child using AI to discover an interesting story together. It's just like reading a "choose your own adventure" book with your child, but it can be much more interactive and you both come up with ideas and have the LLM integrate them.

steve_adams_86 3y ago

I agree. I worry my culture is truly losing sight of what’s good in life. I don’t mean that as in “I know what’s best and everyone’s doing it wrong”, because I fully acknowledge that I can’t know what’s best for others. Yet I watch my friends and family work hard at things they don’t claim to value, I watch them lose life to scrolling and tv and movies they don’t actually enjoy, and I watch them lament that they don’t see their friends as much as they’d like, they don’t have enough time at home, kids are so much work, etc. We have major priority issues from what I can see. If we want to live our lives more but put an AI to work doing something we tend to claim we place very high in our value hierarchy, we’re effectively inviting death into life. We’re forfeiting something we love. That’s incredibly sad to me.

haxiomic 3y ago
This mirrors my feelings also, thank you for expressing it. It's so alien to me to see people trying to optimize way connection with their family and friends; to me that is what life _is_

optimalsolver 3y ago

The AI takes care of the bedtime stories, giving you more time for video games.

sebzim4500 3y ago
Deepmind can play the video games for you, too

gen220 3y ago

I remember in the "microsoft office <> Generative AI" demo, one of the motivating examples was a parent generating a graduation party speech for her child... [1] The first half of the video is demonstrating how the parent can take something as special as a party celebrating a major milestone and automate it into a soulless box-check – while editing some segments to make it look like their own voice. Definite black mirror vibes. [1]: https://youtu.be/ebls5x-gb0s?t=224 https://youtu.be/ebls5x-gb0s?t=224

PretzelPirate 3y ago

I viewed this differently. This wasn't a parent having an AI step in to read their kid a bedtime story, it was a parent and a child using AI to discover an interesting story together. It's just like reading a "choose your own adventure" book with your child, but it can be much more interactive and you both come up with ideas and have the LLM integrate them.