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Baron_Samedi_ t1_irtm3ip wrote

In 2011, smart phones were just becoming powerful and ubiquitous enough to finally run some simple augmented reality programs. So a few friends and I organized the first AR art exhibition in the country where I was then living. We got some decent corporate sponsors, threw a great party, picked up a few bucks, and just generally had a good time of it. Got international press attention, and our art manifesto was published by one of my favorite science fiction writers on his blog on WIRED magazine. At the time, I remember thinking how as a teenager in the 1990s I could not have imagined having that gig "when I grew up", or that there would some day be jobs for artists designing goofy digital AR selfie apps.

The technology underpinning many jobs of the near future hasn't even been invented yet.

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RavenWolf1 t1_irxadgh wrote

>The technology underpinning many jobs of the near future hasn't even been invented yet.

Sure, and there is nothing which can be invented that AI can't do.

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beachmike t1_is4bq1s wrote

We don't know if conscious experience is beyond the ability of AIs, narrow or general. I have no doubt they will become very good at convincing us they are conscious. We will never really know since consciousness is a 1st person experience.

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RavenWolf1 t1_is5pwnh wrote

It doesn't matter if something is real or not as long as it works. “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”

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beachmike t1_is93rhb wrote

It might not matter to you, but it matters to me and many others.

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Baron_Samedi_ t1_irxc6xc wrote

AI isn't there yet.

We can't just hand wave and say "AI" and suddenly another profession (that has not yet even been created) has been replaced.

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RavenWolf1 t1_is1dea5 wrote

AI surely isn't there yet but aren't we talking about post singularity?

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