If you can soon generate high quality content for yourself what does that imply for our society and economy???? What will happen to all the humans who work to produce these things when AI can do it all and all you need to make your own is a computer/internet connection

I feel like no one outside these bubbles are thinking or talking about this. It’s going to hit the mainstream like a ton of bricks. I predict in the next 1-5 years this will all start to happen. And I honestly have no idea what it will be like

You will most likely experience them in the matrix, full dive, 10-20 years

Very insightful

2025

I respectfully disagree. Using your comment to say why I am optimistic. Companies are still going to be making tons of money, nothing will change there once UBI is implemented. They just won’t need to rely on humans for workers anymore. They are likely going to lean into automation as a way for them to make even more money. Once an AI worker can do significantly more cost effective work then companies are going to widely adopt them. As long as UBI works in a way that allows companies do still profit then it will happen faster than people may think, I think around 2025-2030 makes sense. The US are actually very capable of doing this and they distributed everyone above 18 payments during COVID. It will surely depend on the administration though I don’t know which side will be pro or anti.

People are going to slowly become full time consumers (if all goes well). This is a reason IMO to be very excited about the future.

Perhaps then it is contingent upon the rate of automation?

I think focusing on finding what makes you happy and fulfilled is key. There is a chance most if not all jobs will be taking by intelligent machines in the future. Therefore planning your career seems futile.

!remindme in two years

I totally agree with this point. I just have been feeling less optimistic lately about our chances of transcending our human bodies and still be conscious.

Switzerland is concerned about Earth-2

very interesting response!

You are arguing that once we can hack our biology via nuralink and nanobots we will no longer rely on traditional media consumption to entertain us/make us happy? Or you are saying we won't need happiness eventually? I disagree and don't understand. Why won't we still want happiness? You are also making the big leap that we can indeed move our consciousness out of our body, I think it is likely it will be a copy of our consciousness rather than us. Obviously its a big point of contention but you are making a big leap IMO that we will no longer want to be happy and do crave things that bring us happiness.

I think at first it will definitely look like this!

I think the AI could EVENTUALLY (whether that takes 5-50 years) become good enough to handle the whole thing. For some reason I am imagining it being more in the AI hands. I see it your way where we essentially work closely with it but I think it is our tendencies to want to still feel valuable speaking. I think it won’t need us, at least for this process. I see it as easy as generating Dalle images.

Yeah I know what you mean for sure. Maybe the system will be so good at talking to us it can use anyone for great art? Eventually speaking. I agree some people will be better than others at telling it what to make and getting the best out of it. I just think the difference might not be huge. We'll see

why not as simple as talking to a natural language ai? In theory a child can have an AI make a beautiful film the same way a child can make Dalle-2 make a beautiful static picture. I feel like it will mostly be out of our hands

I see, but why not also for entertainment? Why not use it to produce movies for consumption for example?

I hope so. But going from short gifs to watchable 2 hour movies feels like a decent distance. Hopefully 2 years but could be longer like 5-10

I also think we will start to see value in movies with actors that aren’t real people. I often get taken out of the immersion when I see the same 25 faces in every movie. Having realistic and compelling actors that aren’t real people could be game changing.

But what if the fake Tom cruise movie is way better every time? And what if it could be personalized to fit EXACTLY your preferences in what you want to see in a movie? The argument is that the quality of the content is so good it drives the value of human made productions way down. I’d rather see a amazing Tom cruise movie by AI (where I can’t tell the difference and it seems totally real) than a decent Tom cruise movie with the “real” Tom cruise.

Yes but if an AI can create a movie where you can't tell if it is the real Tom Cruise or not, then what is the difference? Or are you speaking particularly of live Broadway?

what do you mean? why not?