Cars are a long way from achieving Artificial General Horsiness (AGH). There are many things a horse can do vastly better than a car, such as jumping over fences, navigating by itself, swimming through water, fueling themselves from naturally occurring vegetation, and providing social companionship.
And yet cars have managed to replace horses for pretty much all tasks that people previously used horses for. This is because it turned out that, while cars can’t do everything horses can do, their speed and cost advantages were big enough that it was worth adapting the rest of the world (e.g. building roads and gas stations) to compensate for their limitations.
There may be lessons here for how we should expect AI to replace human labor.
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[ 3.3 ms ] story [ 8.7 ms ] threadAnd yet cars have managed to replace horses for pretty much all tasks that people previously used horses for. This is because it turned out that, while cars can’t do everything horses can do, their speed and cost advantages were big enough that it was worth adapting the rest of the world (e.g. building roads and gas stations) to compensate for their limitations.
There may be lessons here for how we should expect AI to replace human labor.