If you construe “cannot” to also encompass “cannot because they will be prevented from doing so”, there will be a host of tasks (e.g. social roles, from pastor to psychiatrist) that will remain out of reach for AI, either because AI isn’t accepted by costumers as performing the task (e.g. backlash to the DaVinci robotic surgery system) or because they are barred from performing the task (e.g. strong unions pressuring for subsidies in the form of “may be done only by humans”).
Sure. We don’t take programs to be artists either, but we do have “procedurally generated content” in computer games, taking some of the place that would otherwise be filled by the work of a human artist. Even though the program is not a person and has no social role, it creates some economic value that otherwise would require a person. Procedurally-generated stories don’t seem so far off. either.
If you construe “cannot” to also encompass “cannot because they will be prevented from doing so”, there will be a host of tasks (e.g. social roles, from pastor to psychiatrist) that will remain out of reach for AI, either because AI isn’t accepted by costumers as performing the task (e.g. backlash to the DaVinci robotic surgery system) or because they are barred from performing the task (e.g. strong unions pressuring for subsidies in the form of “may be done only by humans”).
Sure. We don’t take programs to be artists either, but we do have “procedurally generated content” in computer games, taking some of the place that would otherwise be filled by the work of a human artist. Even though the program is not a person and has no social role, it creates some economic value that otherwise would require a person. Procedurally-generated stories don’t seem so far off. either.