I was listening to Lex Fridman's podcast with Yuval Noah Harari and I very much share his overall take on AI so I would like to know your opinion on this. I am 27 and a Software Engineer, all my life I have been open and excited about new breakthroughs in tech but this is the first time I am feeling reluctant about something "new" in tech.
It's sad to say this but the way our society is built is what gives us purpose, although, AI seems like it's gonna change that in a matter of few years, won't that take a big toll on humans? Mainly human's mental health? Sure it's cool we automate many complicated stuff such as research for a specific disease, but why do we want to be cured if we don't feel like we have a purpose in life? AI has the potential to be better at like 90% or more of our activities, so why the hell do I want to learn physics, for example? I feel like humans will lose incentive to do anything, our goal in the beginning was to survive and spread our species, nowadays it is no longer an issue so we changed our focus to today's society goals whether it be to have a house, a family or whatever you believe in. But in a world where machines do everything better than us, where we will get cured instantaneously if we want, where we will have our basic needs fulfilled without any effort, what's there for us?
And one last note, I don't see this as the industrial revolution or any other revolution because I feel that previous revolutions have given us time to adapt, I don't think it will be it this time. We are moving so fast that we will be clueless in my opinion.
What's your take on this?
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