Our brains evolved to hunt prey, find mates, and avoid becoming hunted ourselves. Those three tasks were the main factors for the vast majority of evolutionary history.

We didn't evolve our brains to do math, write code, write letters in the right registers to government institutions, or get an intuition on how to fold proteins. For us, these are hard tasks.

That's why you get AI competing at IMO level but unable to clean toilets or drive cars in all of the settings that humans do.

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dd8601fn 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I'm not excited about a future where the division of labor is something like: AI does all of the interesting stuff and the humans clean the toilets. Especially now that I'm older and my joints won't tolerate it.

	▲	beloch 3 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		It's not that AI is intrinsically better at software engineering, writing, or art than it is at learning how to clean toilets. It's not. The real issue is that cleaning toilets using humans is cheap. That, sadly, is the incentive driving the current wave of AI innovation. Your job will be automated long before your household chores are.
	▲	martin-t 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Don't be ridiculous, AI will create robots that do all the work and the only use for humans will be as amusement for the rich who own everything. Probably not sarcasm, I don't even know.

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nozzlegear 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> Our brains evolved to hunt prey, find mates, and avoid becoming hunted ourselves. Those three tasks were the main factors for the vast majority of evolutionary history.

That seems like a massive oversimplification of the things our brains evolved to do.

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andsoitis 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> We didn't evolve our brains to do math, write code, write letters in the right registers to government institutions, or get an intuition on how to fold proteins. For us, these are hard tasks.

Humans discovered or invented all of those.

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pixl97 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

And it took a massively long time for that to happen after we gained that capability. Human ingenuity really only took off after we put a lot of the work on writing and tools. It wasn't so much that humans created many of these, but the super human organism that uses language and writing to express ideas.

Now think about what we just created.

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alex43578 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Only in small ways and very recently, evolutionarily speaking, were those things rewarded by natural selection (and even that has stopped nowadays).

	▲	andsoitis an hour ago \| parent [-]
		I'm not sure that's a good way to think about it. Evolution transcends hard lines in the temporal sand that "separate species". It also took billions of years of evolution to get to humans. so, humans, on the grander scale of life, is also just a very recent development.