One thing that will limit the market for AI is mirror neurons.
Take F1 for example.
The sport could have replaced the drivers with algorithms as long as 25 years ago (they actually banned a lot of telemetry as the driver was slowly becoming a passenger).
But F1 didn’t replace the driver because nobody would turn up to watch automated cars race, even if they are faster and more aggressive than human drivers.
Nobody cares about robot achievements because robots do not activate human mirror neurons.
Mirror neurons are neurons that recognise another human and empathise to the point of emulating how that other person feels. It’s why your foot kicks when you watch a footballer score a goal. You actually experience the feeling.
With machines this doesn’t happen.
Better isn’t always better.
I think given the choice, most people would delegate their decision making around what they eat to AI.
Post-COVID, I’ve consciously done things to simplify my life.
This often means automation of repetitive tasks, but this could also be extended to automation of repetitive decisions. Cutting grass, vacuuming, etc.
I saw this work by Barbara Iweins and it really got me thinking about how we live today.
https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/barbara-iweins-katalog-photography-220620
We make problems for ourselves that we don’t want. We are hostages to environments that we create unthinkingly (our homes).
Idea 1: Automate your wardrobe. It would take me about half a day to list all the clothes I own in a database. Thereafter my phone could check my calendar and the weather and make suggestions of 2-3 outfits that rotate my wardrobe. I can have a two way conversation with this thing (conversations too mundane to share with another human) and it could probably even tell me if I need a new coat. There is huge runway with this in terms of tech and features and it could really capture a huge market selling clothes via the service. Laundry should also be fully automated by now. I should be able to dump worn clothes in a big hopper and collect fresh pressed clothes from somewhere else. I feel like I’m trapped in the past every time I have to iron a shirt or hang a wet towel.
Idea 2: Automate your fridge. This has been done, I think? But then I’m not so sure. My fridge should be able to handle all the nutrition decisions that I have to make. This could reduce diabetes, obesity, etc. People end up with bad diets not by choice but by ignorance. The AI should be able to gradually steer a person to healthier foods and portion sizes whilst also minimising waste. Why isn’t this the norm?
My brain probably uses about 500 calories per day, and I am guessing that maybe 1-200 calories are spent navigating truly repetitive tasks and decisions that my inner-CEO would delegate if at all possible.
I should probably figure out how to delegate this stuff back to my environment?
That would make me significantly more time rich and clear minded. More present and focused.
Maybe the wardrobe and fridge are not available yet, but any suggestions on routine tasks that can be offloaded to some external system?
Your “account” ?
The API or the chat?
Google search is terrible compared to 20 years ago.
No it’s not like that. Spot the nuance.
They are no driven by serving customers wants, they are driven by shipping whatever thing they have in their warehouse.
They don’t search for the thing you want. They make you want the thing they already have.
Trying to ship the thing that known customers want doesn’t scale. Dumping large volumes of Product712 into a more targeted market surface does.
If what you say is true…
Take a 1 month vacation.
At the end of this month, negotiate.
Ask to see their sales with and without you.
If you can’t afford a 1 month vacation, wait until you can line up another gig and work elsewhere for 1 month.
It’s actually much worse than that isn’t it?
It’s not that your phone is trying to predict and find the stuff you want.
It’s more like, Corporation517 has 10,000 articles of UselessTrinket58929.
Search the market database for the 100,000 Losers most likely to pay the highest price for them.
Load the ad hopper with Advertisement58929
Spam each loser with Advertisement58929, until they clock 40 views.
Wait…
Profit 👍
I’m not sure what you mean there?
Sounds like political dogma.
As atmospheric CO2 increases so does the biomass of the Earth. Thanks to anthropogenic CO2 the biomass of Earth has been steadily increasing since reaching a nadir in the 1960’s.
A higher atmospheric CO2 concentration means more efficient photosynthesis and improved plant growth. The planet doesn’t degrade, life on Earth has witnessed 1/3rd of the history of the universe. It’s survived many more challenging cosmological events than any threat humans pose.
Isn’t the main challenge due to climate change wandering ecosystems running up against geographical limits, as thinks adapt by drifting latitude? 
They will all be dead of cancer long before then.
The cost of servicing the debt is out of control though.
USA has a difficult choice of poison:
1). Inflation
2). Higher taxes
The cost of servicing the debt is low when rates are low, or high when rates are high. Thus choose inflation or taxes?
If you thought politics was polarised before wait until, it’s a matter of literal survival whether the poor tax the rich, or the rich debase the poor.
🍌 whoops 😅
I wasn’t really making a point, just being obtuse with Derek. It’s just v. hard to do paywalls on nostr because nostr is censor resistant.
Content spreads to lots of uncontrolled placed very quickly here.
Zaps are a game changer and we all know it.
We can’t unsee it.
Yes, nobody said that second sentence.
You have hallucinated it.
Nothing wrong with paying for stuff. Or only do stuff for payment.