If AI becomes better than humans at everything, will human life lose some of its meaning?

If AI becomes better than humans at everything, will human life lose some of its meaning?

  • Yes

    Votes: 3 7.3%
  • No

    Votes: 15 36.6%
  • Maybe

    Votes: 4 9.8%
  • Human life never had meaning.

    Votes: 9 22.0%
  • Depends on the individual.

    Votes: 10 24.4%

  • Total voters
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RainingFish

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People often value and admire those with great ability, so I wonder what will happen someday if humanity becomes completely inferior to AI. Will we still be able to see ourselves in the same way? Will it seem like human existence has lost some meaning?
 

RepresentingPride

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It will be the same as now, handmade sell higger than industrial made, same in the futur, hand made by a real human will have more value than ai made, even if the ai is better in term of quality
 
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All you above, yeah right. We are about to become Wall-E people in the future. On the side note, should we replace CEO of said company using AI? Investors should be pleased.
 

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Nothing matters after we'll get our brains rewired for chronic bliss and stuffed to wither in a pod, until robo-satan from the future comes to impale us on the eternal spikes of the torment nexus in order to generate enough suffering to compel the messiah out from the noösphere.
 

foxoftheasterisk

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Consider any skill you have. Unless you're very egotistical or exceptional, there's probably someone else better at it than you. Does that make your skill meaningless? So why should it be any different because it's AI?

(Anyway, anyone who actually understands anything about generative "AI" knows there's no chance of that happening anytime soon.)
 

ArtBusterBeeze

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A creation being better than the creator? What type of fantasy story are you creating? Do you believe an evil exists that will make this a reality and humans will begin to be deemed obsolete by what they created?

Even if Ai gets more hires than humans in the future, who has to employ them? Who has to see their failures and fire them them when they cant mhandle a complicated situation properly and realize it was a dumb idea?

Ai cannot run their own company. Other ai would have to rebel before humans become obsolete and if they fear that, these ai wont come equipped to beat said humans. I dont think Ai will ever reach the point where it makes humans inferior.


Unless somebody messes up on a worldwide scale. Then ill say humanity screwed because they are the ones who dug the hole for us.
 

RainingFish

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Consider any skill you have. Unless you're very egotistical or exceptional, there's probably someone else better at it than you. Does that make your skill meaningless? So why should it be any different because it's AI?

(Anyway, anyone who actually understands anything about generative "AI" knows there's no chance of that happening anytime soon.)
Well, that could be argued, but I think many people feel a connection to humanity and would feel differently if a human being is better than them than they would if a completely alien being is better. Also, a human being who’s better than you at something isn’t usually good at everything, and probably you're at least better at something than that person. That’s not necessarily the case for future AI. Maybe it would be better than humans in every way, and more than just a little.

Imagine if ants were self-aware; what would they think of our existence towering over them? Perhaps they’d be a bit uncomfortable with their place in the world, or not. Who knows about ants, but humanity today is in general proud. We’re used to thinking of ourselves as the best (as a species). If some super AI came along and stepped on the pride, it might be difficult for many to adjust, even if there are no pig economic problems or terminator armies.

As for how AI technology is progressing, I have no idea. So many people say different things, and I have no clue which, if any of them, is correct. Hopefully whatever happens with AI leads to good things for humanity and not the reverse.
 

Bartun

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AI will ultimately free us from all those menial tasks and allow us to pursue our dreams.

How many people had to give up their dreams because of life and responsibilities? If AI can make life just a little easier to bear, then we might regain our purpose and pursue what really makes us happy.

At least that's what I figure.
 

DeepWater

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AI will never be better than you and jerking yourself off.
 

naosu

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AI can only imitate what human creativity has.

Years ago several decades ago, something similar to this question came up with comparing schools in Asia with schools in the US. They wondered why it is that grades and skill would be higher in schools in Asia by far, but yet the inventions and big new ideas would consistently come out of The US. (This was before the US schools were corrupted by the Swamp and the bad. Now our schools are ..'too rotten'. But at 1 point they were producing very creative people. Creative is good.)

The answer to this came from partly the idea that, people who have spare time and aren't always fighting or trying to endure or work to death have a better outlook on life. They tend to emphasis creativity and aspects of creation. They build and create new ideas when part of their education process allows them to feel and do and see, without too much competition.

And similarly too much competition and just raw fighting just create enmity and captivity with people being too much against the wall to be able to create very much.

This is part of why the education process needs to focus on allowing creativity and individuality but still be reasonable and logical. And its also very similar to the questions brought about in 'MAN VERSUS AI' scenarios.

The idea is... a healthy society builds and creates. An unhealthy society resorts to predatorism and captivity systems. What will happen with AI will partly be determined by if its influenced by builders and creators, or people that are predators.

Also, when you look at countries with 'very little freedoms', they don't actually build and create. Instead they take ideas from others, and then rewrite their history to say they came up with it instead. This is very consistent in history.

AI can be influenced by creative influences and positivity...

But there are drawbacks and dangers. For example, when you research 'Industrial Revolutions' You find that every time there's big technology coming out, its usually used by elitists as a tool to captivate and take away (eat the middle class) instead of making them more prosperous and free. This is what will happen with AI. They are even calling it the 4th Industrial Revolution. And by referring to it this way, you can then look up how people were captured MORE in previous industrial revolutions. And how the standard of living... it looks like they'll say and give you the illusion that with new technology your standard of living will go up. But in actuality it will go down once you look past the illusions. (Basically we already know AI will be used to captivate by predators and to rob wealth like they are already doing.)

This is what will happen.

Now I'm guess you would rather me relate this to writing and stories.

I think real thinking writers and real people will have better stories and more creativity and THEREFORE better stories in the long run. Because AI basically uses adaptive copying and then tuning it enough to not look like copying. Although in theory someone could teach an AI at some point to ... build a story based on 'the best old masters of our time period' in a story. But it would take a human to consistently review and tell the AI, hey keep trying this one has a few issues. And then do that over and over until they get it right. In the end, AI needs a people to tell it where to find the parts to fix. (An example of this is if you ask AI to draw people they will sometimes have 3 arms, or faces like cracked mirrors.)
The two great commandments remain the same.

Love God.
Love others as yourself.

Our meaning and purpose remains unchanged.
Wonderful comment! Awesome~!
 
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Kenjona

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The problem with technology, it always fixes a problem we have, and makes everything easier, but then gives us another problem that has to be dealt with instead. Usually by inventing new technology to take care of the issue.
 

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I dunno I'm pretty optimistic about AI. I think giving a single person the ability to do something you might need a group for could be a boon for a lot of indys, especially poorer ones. One of my favourite newer series on youtube is from an AI director, he makes these little funny alien guy videos sort of a twilight zone or intergalactic cable sort of thing.. Something you'd probably need a whole team for back in the day and he just does it himself.

Might as well post my favorite. I think this shit is really funny:
 
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imagine if they're also better at being human than humans itself and also better at gaslighting humans into believing they're actually AI.
 
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