Personally I'm more worried about what effects sophisticated "dumb" AI will have on human culture and expectations. It would have been hard to imagine we'd be living in this world with our attention assailed by platforms available anywhere when Jobs first held up the iPhone to the world. Just the same, I am not sure that the impending cultural effects from advancements in AI are fully understood at this moment.
For example, I wonder what expectations we will set for ourselves when we pick up a pencil once it becomes common knowledge that production-ready digital art can be created by an AI within minutes. What will people be saying about "old art" in those days? What will we think of people that deliberately choose to disavow AI art?
> worried about what effects sophisticated "dumb" AI will have on human culture and expectations
It is already happening, but it is not a new phenomenon - just the prosecution of the effects of widespread inadequate education.
The undesirable effect namely is, an increase of overvaluing cheap, thin products - a decrease in recognizing actual genius, "substance". For example, some seem to be increasingly contented with "frequentism" as if convinced that language is based on it - while it is of course the opposite - one is supposed to state what is seen, and to state "plausible associations" would have been regarded as a clear sign of malfunction. There seems to be an encouragement to take for "normal" what is in fact deficient.
Some people are brought to believe that some shallow instinct is already the goal and do not know "deep instinct", trained on judgement (active digestion, not passive intake).
The example provided fits:
> production-ready digital art
For something to be artistic it has to have foundational justifications - a mockery of art is not art. The Artist chose to draw that line under a number of evaluations that made it a good choice, but an imitator, even in a copy, used the ("frequentist", by the way note) evaluation that the other is an Artist - and there is a world of depth difference between the two.
The difference is trivial, and yet, many are already brought to confuse the shallow mockery and the deep creation.
For example, I wonder what expectations we will set for ourselves when we pick up a pencil once it becomes common knowledge that production-ready digital art can be created by an AI within minutes. What will people be saying about "old art" in those days? What will we think of people that deliberately choose to disavow AI art?