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Humans always had more skills we hadn’t mechanized yet.
After proper AI - what’s left?
GPT and Stable Diffusion obviously aren’t Asimov-grade robotics, but they can already do a ton of stuff we thought would be the last vestiges of humanity’s unique talents. Right now it’s still kinda jank. But it’s been a year. Two or three, for LLMs. And in the middle of this ongoing explosion, we don’t even need human beings for porn anymore. Video’s gonna go from A Scanner Darkly to nearly flawless in the blink of an eye. All it takes is someone puzzling out the right shape of the network and then pointing a gigawatt of PCs at some DVD rips.
We’re talking about a loom for art. And chatbots that… work. There’s jobs that humans are still definitely better at, but a lot of them are the kind where you’re competing with silicone.