I think you're on the right track in a lot of ways. I differ in some of the "doom and gloom" fears or concers (that I understand the like of Musk also share). I think projects like STEEM and Spells of Genesis (a blockchain-based game with provably-rare game assets) allows for a future where 8 year old kids get their first part-time job playing cryptobased games for tokens that they can exchange for real local fiat in their national currency. That could evolve to design skills, programming skills, or just being an artist. I think that automation will lead to a flourishing of art and paid consumers / interactors with art. Might sound far-fetched, but I just wanted to share an opposing, perhaps more optimistic view. I do share your enthusiasm with STEEM though!
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Thank you. I'm not sure if I get your point but do you mean that since art is hard for computers automation will lead into a new era with more artists and jobs for art?
Yeah, you said it pretty well. I know it might sound far-fetched but automation will become like air, I'd predict. Once AI is further along, it will be bid down in the market until it's ubiquitous. Then, those who are most right-brained and creative will be the most well-off and successful. Entertainers and educators will be the wealthy while the leeches of society will need to find a way to add value.
Well what you say is basically correct and right brained jobs are the latest target of AI. Even so, it's still very feasible for a category of AI which is called machine learning to get into artistic works and becomes creative. There are already many algorithms that create beautiful artworks and some researches are also in progress like this: https://www.forbes.com/sites/bernardmarr/2017/02/27/augmenting-art-could-ibms-machine-learning-bring-back-gaudi-and-davinci/#ed8170644ec4
I'll look into it, but I maintain hope at least that humans have a potencial for deeper creativity and emotion than any sharp algorithm.
Humans have but the problem is machine learning algorithms use the previous artworks of humans to learn how to do it and steal it pretty fast.
I suppse we all shall see. Either robots bring forth utopia... or dystopia....