alt Hacker NewsOur brains evolved to hunt prey, find mates, and avoid becoming hunted ourselves. Those three tasks were the main factors for the vast majority of evolutionary history.
We didn't evolve our brains to do math, write code, write letters in the right registers to government institutions, or get an intuition on how to fold proteins. For us, these are hard tasks.
That's why you get AI competing at IMO level but unable to clean toilets or drive cars in all of the settings that humans do.
Replies
andsoitis • today at 1:13 AM
> We didn't evolve our brains to do math, write code, write letters in the right registers to government institutions, or get an intuition on how to fold proteins. For us, these are hard tasks.
Humans discovered or invented all of those.
➕ show 2 replies
I'm not excited about a future where the division of labor is something like: AI does all of the interesting stuff and the humans clean the toilets. Especially now that I'm older and my joints won't tolerate it.