The last paragraph feels more wrong the more I think about it.
Imagine an AI as smart as some of the smartest humans, able to do everything they intellectually do but much faster, cheaper, 24/7 and in parallel.
Why would you spend any time thinking? All you'll be doing it is the things an AI can't do - 1) feeding it input from the real world and 2) trying out its output in the real world.
1) Could be finding customers, asking them to describe their problem, arranging meetings, driving to the customer's factory to measure stuff and take photos for the AI, etc.
2) Could be assembling the prototype, soldering, driving it to the customer's factory, signing off the invoice, etc.
None of that is what I as a programmer / engineer enjoy.
If actual human-level AI arrives, it'll do everything from concept to troubleshooting, except the parts where it needs presence in the physical world and human dexterity.
If actual human-level AI arrives, we'll become interfaces.
Imagine an AI as smart as some of the smartest humans, able to do everything they intellectually do but much faster, cheaper, 24/7 and in parallel.
Why would you spend any time thinking? All you'll be doing it is the things an AI can't do - 1) feeding it input from the real world and 2) trying out its output in the real world.
1) Could be finding customers, asking them to describe their problem, arranging meetings, driving to the customer's factory to measure stuff and take photos for the AI, etc.
2) Could be assembling the prototype, soldering, driving it to the customer's factory, signing off the invoice, etc.
None of that is what I as a programmer / engineer enjoy.
If actual human-level AI arrives, it'll do everything from concept to troubleshooting, except the parts where it needs presence in the physical world and human dexterity.
If actual human-level AI arrives, we'll become interfaces.