AI rant - Cultivating challenge in an age of ease

Humanity is ultimately lazy. This is why the industrial revolution was so huge, as it allowed for automation of repetitive tasks and setting of rules in order to create physcial objects at scale. AI has been a similar development for intellectual content, allowing for automation of generation of ideas and concepts. Conveying this through language means it can be used as an agent in order to copilot work or even be autonamous in its own way. I think currently the path we are on is we have peaked with data based "models" and instead rules / concepts similar to our own understanding are being implemented in order to feign real intelligence. Humanity is the only known life in the universe, do we really think that the information created by us is enough to build something of similar complexity to the human brain. It took hundreds of millions of years of years of survival of the fittest. I think with much much more information perhaps it is possible to abstract away consciousness however we are not anywhere near there. We have reverted back to designing rules / engineering abstract concepts in order to min max what we have.

Anyways, I have not really answered the question. I think obviously it makes things easier and overreliance can be dangerous because it means we lose the skills to perform the normal task. However to be honest this has happened in the industrial sense long ago. Without tools used for mass production could someone make this without? Maybe at the start. We need to be conscious of the fact that intellectual concepts are being abstracted away and this will effect how we live and think. It still scares me that AI is just a black box where its inputs are relatively unknown. Lets say a popular company such as google trains a model and uses information predominantly from far right sources. Answers given will then be politically leaning without real self awareness. Same deal if KFC paid them some money in order to encourage an ai model to choose it more highly (if eventually people can eventually not even decide what food to eat by themself). I wouldnt even be slightly suprised if google did this, they are big data hoarders prividing and subtely implement their ad business into everything. Advertising, racism and political bias are the couple of things which really scare me as the data used is so huge its impossible to distingush. The only way is through using multiple models and assuming the competitive market is enough to ensure that there a more nuanced "truth".

Maybe we abstract away the learning of certain skills, however this is much more dangerous than automating physical jobs. It has been a increasing industry of people moving out of physically challenging jobs and into intellecutal ones. What will replace this if intellectual josb are decided to be useless also. Maybe people will embrace teaching experiences in a way that only human to human inteaction really can. Maybe we will become isolated and more consumeristic. Maybe we will do nothing and freedom will be taken away from us. Without essential work maybe we will find something more meaningful to do than spin the cogs of capitalism.