Erich_L You're mixing categories, as per usual when it comes to hyper excitement over ai. For some reason this is a trademark of most of the ai "debate". We're discussing "will it replace us" while you (or somebody else) strawmans it into "how we learn".
My only gripe really is with this deluded thinking and rhetoric. I'm saying "deluded" here because I'm giving everybody touting strawmanious ai nonsense the benefit of the doubt that it's not intentional, but just a result of poor knowledge mixed with emotional responses. It's indicative that people tend to switch reality for pure fantasy when talking about ai, with the same ease you here switched from "lost jobs" to "learning". This behavior is more likely to occur the less someone knows how neural nets, or computers in general for that matter, actually work. There are exceptions though as no mind is immune to deluded thinking at some point in time/space about some subject.
Engaging in discussions in such climate is basically a waste of time. I'm not "for" or "against" anything ai related. I said numerous times I consider it a tool, as opposed to thinking it's some kind of magical phenomenon or (:facepalm) an entity. Like any other tool, it has potential to be useful.
How much it will automate away in the grand scheme of things - remains to be seen. I'm skeptical it will be that much when it comes to creativity due to highly derivative nature of generative neural nets output. It's basically a radical form of lossy, en masse data compression. No human created data - no ai. That's why it's considered unethical by some people if the data thusly compressed is copyrighted and used for such purpose without explicit permission.
To be fair, the mass usage of generative ai may shift people's perception of what is considered "creative". Ai output that looks like creativity of times past will simply lost its special status and will start to be deemed low value. However this is nothing new or shocking. It happened over and over all throughout the history. Creative focus (and its wider cultural appreciation) will simply move to some other/new areas.
As for busywork, all ai firepower can be my guest in automating that awful stuff away.
Predicting future is a fool's errand though. The forest sage says best not indulge in it with a high degree of self-confidence, lest you crave ending up ridiculed by ever-ironic turns of future events.
All the above utterances of the word ai should be taken as if written inside quotation marks: "ai" 🙂
