Regarding the first one, it's actually a surprisingly difficult problem. Sure we can try right now but deep learning systems currently have a lot of issues with

Regarding the first one, it's actually a surprisingly difficult problem. Sure we can try right now but deep learning systems currently have a lot of issues with continuous learning, if you just do it the naive way they keep forgetting all they learned to get better performance on the most recent examples. But yeah the second one definitely seems like the harder of the two. The building blocks of intelligence and the mind are indeed endless fascinating, I spend way too much time thinking about this stuff. Oh no I agree, the current AI systems have already caused notable changes in society and even if the development of even more powerful AI stagnates here(for now) we are bound to continue to see societal changes for some time as this is all quite new and society is still adapting and figuring out the "right way" to handle all this. In particular the impact it has had on artists of all kinds is widespread and I'll be curious to see how it pans out and how we handle it as a society.