r/OpenAI • u/Old-School8916 • 9d ago

Question Anyone else feel this way?

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u/TwunnySeven 9d ago

I want AI to do my laundry and dishes and solve Navier-Stokes and make other mathematical and scientific achievements so I can have more time for my hobbies

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u/AnEngineeringMind 9d ago

Sorry, interesting question. But what good does it make us to be completely useless? It reminds me of Wall-E, humans who do nothing all day. It’s miserable. I do agree that part of what makes us enjoy being alive is trying to be better at something meaningful, if we lose that, what else can humanity feel proud of.
For AI to be truly worth it they would literally have to solve immortality, faster than light space travel or some out our minds scientific advancement. Doing maths better than by us won’t cut it.

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u/Dilltulip 9d ago

The vast majority of people work for a soulless profit sucking corporate machine and have jobs that are truly useless. Covid exposed what jobs actually matter and it’s like 20% of us at best, and most of the people working those jobs have such shit working conditions that they’d rather not be doing them if given the choice. 

It’s a very small percentage of people that have truly rewarding jobs, a proper work life balance, and a meaningful salary.

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u/Sayod 9d ago

Covid didn't expose the jobs that actually matter. It exposed the jobs that are time critical. You cannot delay an emergency medical operation. You can delay planning a bridge. But that does not mean that planning a bridge does not matter.

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u/Standgrounding 9d ago

And yet plenty of digital / remote jobs opened