It doesn't have to be an A+ student, it just has to clear 60% on web exams for me to pass (all my exams are permanently web based regardless of covid).

And it does, with no help at all.

If AI is going to take the job i haven't gotten yet, i think it's completely fair play if it helps me get the software engineering degree i maybe won't have much use for anyway.

Knowing how to use the index of a book will be less common.

They will just type in their questions into an AI generator instead of looking up single pages in mammoth stuff like Intel's manual on the x86 architecure (almost 5000 pages).

Like when Todd from Breaking Bad had his own little psycho starship commander adventure in Black Mirror?

Ever considered playing Wow or something similar?

I found it to be a pretty decent substitute for a big part of my life, as engaged guilds can have pretty much chatting.
Also, the latest expansion that dropped just 3ish weeks ago really is the bomb.

The thought that "i need to feel productive to be happy" is probably stemming from the deeply ingrained feeling that you have to be productive to some degree to simply exist.

Look at some trust fund billionaires, do you think they always feel the need to be productive when they in reality can sit on their ass, blow their nose into Michal Jackson's diamond glove and fly radio controlled fullsize airplanes into mountain ranges with their feet all day if they wanted to?

Sure, i wouldn't like doing nothing all day but watching television if an option was to work 40 hours a week.

But i definitely wouldn't work 40 hours a week with healthcare, fast food, scribbling old blueprints into databases or moving stuff to the front at a supermarket, if sitting at my ass watching TV all day was an actual option without falling into deep poverty.
I probably wouldn't watch TV all day then though, i would probably do something else.

I would like to build paintball cannons that would connect to a GNSS connected drone, which had a camera + LiDAR sensor and could feed the control system for the cannon with exact coordinates to the target.
All this synchronized with body mounter LiDAR sensors (or stereo cameras) that would 3D map the playfield (like a forest) to mark in the system where obstacles like trees were, so the system would be knowing what positions were obstructed.

Another thing i'd like to do, if i could, was to make a brain scanner that could sens where you have itches, and mark in AR glasses for someone to scratch you most efficiently.

Of course i neither have the time or resources for this now, but i think it would be a fun and educational hobby for a while.

It was a conditional statement.

I believe AGI will be faster approaching, but assuming it don't, larger disparities will be seen.

I'd rather guess on 20 at most.
But even then, 20 years is a long time to really mess things up royally regarding wealth distribution.

If we get extremely good narrow AI within many areas, but not AGI for another 100-1000 years, we will probably see some extremely large disparities between haves and havenots.

Way bigger than we have now.

I understand fully why this post got downvoted, and it's the same reason i think democracy is a bad idea.
Too many people are simply not clever or well intended enough to vote about what's good or bad.

I think it was a great post, although maybe slightly rough in some sense.

Considering the rapid advancement of imaging AI, i imagine they will have lost a large margin to small studios before 2030.

There are some chapters in Superintelligence by Nick Bostrom that touches that subject.

His idea is that after the singularity, the only humans that actually work with crafting things and have some sort of economical relevance to it are those who can profit off the craft being piquant.

Like people thinking "Oh, a website being crafted by hand by a human? That is so pittoresque".

Pretty much like equestrianism.

You are completely right, and i am happy for you being so insightful.

I am more of a programmer, but i realize already now that in 3 years, the programming profession will be really heavily influenced by AI, and i have to adapt already now.

To be honest, first thing i do when i finish my webdev and networking courses in january should be to read up a lot on prompt engineering and some basic AI terminology.

This stuff will be wild.