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Chris's avatar

I actually have no doubt that you could create a machine that creates an excellent char kway teow. And if a huge community of people decided they were going to buy one maybe you could even produce it for some vaguely reasonable price. I think the challenge is that it would ONLY produce char kway teow. And you have to be really dedicated to char kway teow to use up counter space and money on a dedicated char kway teow machine. (I'm reminded of a conversation with you years ago about the special form used to make caneles)

I suspect AI is going to be very good at specialize tasks before it gets good at general ones. It seems "easy" to give an AI an understanding of contract law sufficient to create a licensing agreement between megacorps, for instance. This is the opposite of how we value human labor currently. We see a lawyer who has learned all there is to know about contracts but knows little about other areas of law as having very high value. We see a line cook at a diner who can make a wide variety of foods as having low value. Perhaps AI flips this on its head?

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Cynthia Robinson's avatar

Wow. Great argument! And great discussion. Thanks, all.

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