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The original was posted on /r/singularity by /u/exirae on 2024-01-12 15:14:07+00:00.
I've been thinking about what the limits are to ai, and what you can't automate, and I think I've found it finally. Human excellence that presupposes human limitations. People don't follow magnus Carlson because he's good at chess, deep blue is better at chess, they follow him because he pushes the limits of human finitude. Athletes are like this too. Classical violinists. In music we call this virtuosity. We've had clockwork automatons that can play violins since the early 19th century. But it's not the act of playing the violin that's important, it's pushing the bounds of human finitude that's impressive. It may be that we don't care about that in 20 years, but I think that's the thing that you in principal can't automate. It's not exactly an economically useful thing, in that none of those people are making a useful thing to buy and sell, but any area of human endeavor that involves an element of human virtuosity isn't going to go away completely.