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> Soon Office will include advanced AI capabilities to write and reply to email. What is the point of me reading it? If my AI can generate a satisfactory reply, your AI could have generated the response too. No email needed, nor a reply. You'd be kind of daft not to proof-read the emails your AI sends out on your behalf. who knows what you might unknowingly agree to do? > We're now in a phase where anybody can generate spectacular art. What is the point of me looking at your generated art? AI can generate personalized art based on what it knows I like. If AI works, and it's headed that way, you keep ending up at the same question: what is the point of anything? there is no point to anything, there wasn't before AI and there isn't now. anything we do is meaningless, because eventually we all die, and our efforts are ultimately forgotten. once you get over that you can make your peace with whether the pretty thing you look at is made by a human feeding sentences to a computer or a human carefully marking paper with a pencil, or some combo. but seriously, as a human who has spent all of my life doodling, drawing, illustrating, painting, thousands of hours creating my own art, and even building my own tools to do so, I find AI is just another tool in the box. I can use it to make images, and now someone who has not spent most of their life drawing can use it to make something more visually stunning than I ever could. has it rendered my efforts meaningless? hell no, I enjoyed every second I spent drawing. I still draw. but I don't harbour any illusions that I'm doing it for anyone other than myself. |
The bigger point was that sending AI content to each other is utterly pointless. The generate->send->read->generate reply->send cycle would simply be: generate.
Example: you send me an email asking about a project's status as well as the contact person for a particular vendor the company deals with. I'll manually reply with the answer, or let AI generate it (fully or partly) and send it back to you. Great. In the future state, your AI will simply give you the answers directly. You won't email me and you don't need me.
My take on the meaning of life is that there isn't any, it's whatever you make of it. But I wasn't being that deep. I believe that our current still human approach has substantially more meaning than AI generating almost anything.
I'm happy that you enjoy the process of art-making itself, that's a robust baseline to fall back on, but joy in process applies to very few interactions. My point is that many if not all digital interactions become pointless.