What is your best argument against this possibility? People were laughing at the idea of AI doing math at all a few years ago, I feel that all those still secure in human superiority in any other domain won't be feeling the same way in a few years once robotics reaches a critical threshold. I think the only thing keeping humans in charge at that point would be very effectively managed regulation which gives humans a decisive, if artificial, advantage.
Would you trust an AI or a humanoid robot to safely fly and land a commercial plane with 300+ human passengers and zero human captains?
We will always need humans for highly critical roles and tasks. Building yet another web app framework or building apps in Nextjs or React isn't one of them.
> I think the only thing keeping humans in charge at that point would be very effectively managed regulation which gives humans a decisive, if artificial, advantage.
It just means that someone has to take full responsibility for when it all goes wrong given that the cost might go into the millions or tens of millions of dollars.
Sure things will change and possibilities will redistribute.
There is this lost art called “quality of life”, which you may have noticed many modest people excel and many wealthy fail. Living well is a lost technology each and every one of us must find out for ourselves.
“AI” is just a tool which refactors all that other shit we made up to make our crazy world work over the past decades.
I don’t know what you’ve been paid to code, I’ve got some stories.
Live well. Being a reliable talented or useful person will always find benefit. For myself, I am thinking “Epicurean garden.”
bigyabai•47m ago
Do you live in a world where farming, mining, refining, manufacturing, managing, policing, politicking, QA testing, investing, bartering and advertising are all completely automated?
If you automated all of those things, there would be so much room for disruption that the AI wouldn't be able to maintain dominance.
atleastoptimal•46m ago
> If you automated all of those things, there would be so much room for disruption that the AI wouldn't be able to maintain dominance.
I think the skill "being able to identify and exploit areas ripe for disruption" is also a skill AI could hill-climb to become better than humans at. Being an entrepreneur is a mixture of domain knowledge, perseverance, intelligence, sales, and execution, and there is nothing keeping an embodied AI system, or even a trivially implemented AI-led system with ceremonial human representatives (for shaking hands when deals are made) from dominating in those domains and thus the entire entrepreneurial space.