I had a wonderful dream. A dream about how people would never have to work long hours again.. Most people labor 30, 40 or 50 hours a week. In my dream AI put an end to all the drudgery.
The stringed instrument makers were relieved. It takes months to make a great violin, viola, cello or bass. The finest Norwegian spruce, maple and willow must be obtained. The wood must be aged. Then it must be slowly shaped, sanded, manipulated into 71 differnt pieces for a violin by a team of craftsmen. Then carefully oiled and varnished till finally the non wooden pieces are applied. In my dream, all that labor was avoided by wonderful AI-created instruments,that were cheaper and that produced sounds so near to the traditional instruments that even some experts couldn’t tell the difference. The instrument makers were freed to enjoy the casual life usually reserved for royalty. And amazingly the new AI instruments played themselves!!!! Musicians, who spend countless hours a day practicing, were no longer required!!!
The best basketball players must start very early, at 5 or 6 years old and practice for 15 years almost daily to make the NBA. But in my dream magnificent physical robots were created for basketball.
The best were allowed to try out for the NBA!!! Several made the teams!! The next year only 6 humans were playing for NBA teams because the robots had elevated the art of basketball so wonderfully. The thousands of hours saved from constant running, dribbling shooting released teens to enjoy Tic Toc like normal kids.
Doctors have to spend 8 long years at college and several more as interns before they can become surgeons. But in my dream AI had elevated surgery with precision operations that emancipated young men and women from the exhausting 24 hour shifts and allowed them to enjoy the pleasantries that normal people enjoy.
In my dream, a wide variety of people and professions were given respite from their tedious 9 to 5. However some problems still existed. The number of drug addicts and overdose dealths quadrupled and were creating quite a nuissance to communities. And domestic violence was up. I woke up at about this point, considering what had just happened. Everything was utopian in the dream except for the drugs and homes. I came to understand that the dream simply hadn’t finished. I’m quite sure AI would have come up with a wonderful solution to the problem of drug addiction and home squabbles had I slept a little longer.
Instrument makers
Basketball Players
Master Builders and Architects
Medical Researchers
1 reply on “47. A Wonderful AI Dream”
Some say that artisans will become more and more valued as AI develops as we will respect the talent and perseverance it takes to make that great loaf of bread or painting etc etc. Of course AI will be able to quickly duplicate it. Unfortunately the oligarchs creating and controlling AI are not so willing to spread the enormous wealth being created so that in the future we can all live like the aristocracy, helping one another, developing community, sharing insights, participating in physical and intellectual activities to enrich our lives. Maybe AI leadership in government will bring about the needed changes to make it happen.
The Nazi Nerds led by Peter Thiel and like minded billionaires do not believe democracy and freedom can coexist so they want to establish a technical autocracy which of course is led by them. read Gil Duran book “The Nerd Reich”