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I suspect as much as well. If AI makes it easier to produce certain products, then advertisers will do their damndest to create demand for those products. And i

I suspect as much as well. If AI makes it easier to produce certain products, then advertisers will do their damndest to create demand for those products. And if AI makes production cheaper, safer, and faster, then planners will orient their constructions and designs around making use of those efficiencies. Similar to how the widespread adoption of the car changed our cities, so too will AI change what we build, AI's limitations and all. I wouldn't be surprised if, at some point, we have a mental model of "things AI can build" and companies just assume that the majority of our solutions to problems will come from within that set. It doesn't even matter if those AI solutions don't fit the problems very well, as long as they're cheap. The smaller set of "things we still have to get humans to build" will cost more and therefore be de-emphasized and seen as a last resort. An equivalent might be producing features that introduce legal vulnerabilities. You can imagine lots of planners saying, "Can we do without that feature?"

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I like this graphic of draft (working) horses vs. other (companion/sport) horses over time (1800-2010 in France): https://www.researchgate.net/publication/338480301/figure/fig1/AS:845430833283085@1578577826802/Evolution-of-the-horse-population-in-France-from-1800-to-2010-translated-from-French.ppm https://www.researchgate.net/publication/338480301/figure/fi... It shows clearly that farm (and transport) automation wiped out the draft horse population, but that the other horse population, having traversed the same bottleneck (ca. 1970), has rebounded. (and in fact there were absolutely more "others" in 2010 than there were in 1840) Moral: try to be the sort of programmer a little girl (little AI?) would love? > It had come to [Squealer's] knowledge, he said, that a foolish and wicked rumour had been circulated at the time of Boxer's removal. Some of the animals had noticed that the van which took Boxer away was marked "Horse Slaughterer," and had actually jumped to the conclusion that Boxer was being sent to the knacker's. It was almost unbelievable, said Squealer, that any animal could be so stupid. Surely, he cried indignantly, whisking his tail and skipping from side to side, surely they knew their beloved Leader, Comrade Napoleon, better than that? But the explanation was really very simple. The van had previously been the property of the knacker, and had been bought by the veterinary surgeon, who had not yet painted the old name out. That was how the mistake had arisen. —EAB

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I like this graphic of draft (working) horses vs. other (companion/sport) horses over time (1800-2010 in France): https://www.researchgate.net/publication/338480301/figure/fig1/AS:845430833283085@1578577826802/Evolution-of-the-horse-population-in-France-from-1800-to-2010-translated-from-French.ppm https://www.researchgate.net/publication/338480301/figure/fi... It shows clearly that farm (and transport) automation wiped out the draft horse population, but that the other horse population, having traversed the same bottleneck (ca. 1970), has rebounded. (and in fact there were absolutely more "others" in 2010 than there were in 1840) Moral: try to be the sort of programmer a little girl (little AI?) would love? > It had come to [Squealer's] knowledge, he said, that a foolish and wicked rumour had been circulated at the time of Boxer's removal. Some of the animals had noticed that the van which took Boxer away was marked "Horse Slaughterer," and had actually jumped to the conclusion that Boxer was being sent to the knacker's. It was almost unbelievable, said Squealer, that any animal could be so stupid. Surely, he cried indignantly, whisking his tail and skipping from side to side, surely they knew their beloved Leader, Comrade Napoleon, better than that? But the explanation was really very simple. The van had previously been the property of the knacker, and had been bought by the veterinary surgeon, who had not yet painted the old name out. That was how the mistake had arisen. —EAB