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I mean, we already have a laundry machine to do the laundry and a dishwasher to do the dishes.
Meanwhile, I can't draw for shit. So I can understand - at least around the edges - why "Please draw me a picture of a tiger with a boner and a big grin standing upright in a t-shirt that says Stripe Right For A Good Time" has a certain naive appeal.
I just don't know if I enjoy having my water bill doubled in order to pay for it.
I feel like some people in this thread are thinking of her statement as specifically about dish washing and laundry, art and writing. But to me, she was commenting more generally about tedious chore-type activities versus fun, creative activities.
Wouldn't you rather have a robot / AI do the not-fun things, so you can focus on the fun things? You could spend time learning to draw, for example, if you want to. if you also want the AI to draw for you, fine but know that many do not.
No, I get that. I just find that much of the tedious work has already been automated about as far as is practical. Everything afterwards requires the kind of manual dexterity and human cognition to accomplish that machines have never done well.
I'll spot you that we're talking about multiple trillions of dollars in national investments. And that could be going to high speed rail lines and supersonic jets. It could be going to massive solar/wind farms and upgraded drainage/wastewater recycling. It could be going to nuclear power for ecological preservation and nationalized health care.
That's not "automation" in the household sense. But all of these investments would take industrial infrastructure to leverage economies of scale and meaningfully improve the quality of life of hundreds of millions of people by saving them time and personal expenses. If you care about saving people's time from tedium, there's improvements we could make. But they aren't consumer household improvements so much as civil engineering projects.