It's generating drawings and music and games and such
It's not replacing fast food service workers, or retail or farmers or plumbers. It's not replacing the shitty grunt work
It's replacing the creative, beautiful stuff
I'm not being childish. I'm simply looking at reality without my head in the sand
It's replacing work that is purely to do with information.
Years ago there was talk about the "anywheres" vs. the "somewheres" - people who can do their jobs from anywhere (home, a cafe, a plane, the other side of the world) vs people whose work is necessaily rooted to a particular place. Your plumbers and farmers and retail workers.
AI can replace "anywhere" work, but there is little progress in robotics. Replacing "somewhere" work is many years away.
I agree there's little progress in robotics, relative to AI. But "many years away" might mean just 10 years away. You can buy this robot for 16 grand USD:
https://www.unitree.com/images/Unitree%20G1%20EN%201080p%20%...
To me, it feels like the barrier now is more on the software end than the hardware end. Is this your impression too, or do you disagree?
If it comes to pass it sounds very grim
And it does seem like the direction we are heading in, with less and less likelihood of slowing or reversing course