I'm really tired of these arguments (this and "it's just like calculators").

Photography decimated other forms of visual art, so the concern wasn't wrong. But AI threatens the entirety of human intellectual endeavors. I can make do without oil paintings in my home. I'm not sure I want to live in a future where we make do without brains.

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beambot 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Humans still have brains (and thus human intellect) even in the presence of AI... Even today, people make varying use of their brains.

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CuriouslyC 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Lots of people still make bad music that other people still manage to enjoy (a lot of it has gone multi-platinum!) even though they're not Mozart or Bach.

	▲	Forgeties79 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		This would be valid if we didn’t live in under capitalism, which reduces the way we spend our time down to dollars and cents.

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anthonypasq 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

you can still get oil paintings in your house. you just arent willing to pay for actual art

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piker 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Had me until the last word. Cameras did take away oil paintings, but not eyes.

	▲	astrobe_ 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It did. While you're busy recording an "instagramable" moment, you are not entirely enjoying that moment. Your eyes are on the screen, not on the subject. In a way, if photography is an ersatz for painting that eventually made imaging available for the masses, then AI could become an ersatz for thinking. But it feels like I'm paraphrasing TFA. What will happen when AI companies have spent their advertising budget on math problems and whatever else gives the maximum wow effect for the bucks? Probably customers hooked on the vain satisfaction of spending token$ to impress friends.