The Future of Work

I doubt if it will have significant affect in our lifetimes, I did do my doctoral thesis on AI using FPGAs and looked into using tensorflow for GPU accelerated learning. Let's just say it is scary what it can do thus far.

E.g
https://deepart.io/

 

The future of work is the difficult task of taking down Skynet.

To me, work is a combination of physical and mental effort required to complete a task. When AI does everything for us, then we'll just find another way to do things.

 

Rather than instituting Universal Basic Income, we should instead ban the mass production of certain goods and allow individual craftsmen to make them instead. This would be far more fulfilling than simply getting a check from the state. We could even let people become farmers again, let the machines take care of the backbreaking work while people do the more enjoyable work.