This is not, not, not good. How am I going to convince my 8 year old that it’s worthwhile to learn to draw if an ai can do it for her? Or how to code or play

This is not, not, not good. How am I going to convince my 8 year old that it’s worthwhile to learn to draw if an ai can do it for her? Or how to code or play a musical instrument? These skills take decades to perfect. And that means to maintain them they need to be useful and necessary for society. Look: when a factory is outsourced to a different country, the people who worked there have no way to pass on their skills. In one generation the community knowledge is gone and if you move the factory back, you’re starting from scratch. Technology can be lost. It’s an emergent thing that comes from clusters of people doing the same thing and learning from each other. If we stay on the path we are on: only hobbyists will be able to do these things, human effort will be unnecessary, and our minds will degrade and cease to be any use. Despite decades of Hollywood warning us of terminators and Hal 2000, the ai’s don’t need to attack us or try to kill us off to defeat us. They can destroy us just by trying to help.