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Art is very profitable for the rich and elite, in terms of laundering money.

Underrated comment.

That still requires gathering the dirty items together, loading/unloading, keeping track of when it is full/time to run.

And I still need to prompt the AI, review the images presented, copy/paste them, possibly apply further manipulations to suit my needs.

Like, yes. Your life isn't going to be 100% on autopilot for anything except bill pay.

that doesn’t take away from the message of “AI should help make life easier, not replace the creative outlets additional free time should allow”

I think it outlines the raw limits of any kind of automation. You can make imperfect trades between human labor and appliances. But there's always a limit that a tool can do without supervision relative to what a cognizant human can perform.

Edit: to be clear, I don’t think a washer machine or dishwasher is a hassle and problem that needs solving, but that doesn’t take away from the message of “AI should help make life easier, not replace the creative outlets additional free time should allow”

You are a dreamer, we live in the real world with limited resources, and here everything will be hard without hope, and robots will replace people, not help them.

Utopia is not possible, only dystopia is possible.

I would agree that's what people mean, but they're completely overlooking that the problem has already been recognised, and addressed, with a solution that's been around for decades.

It's just that people take these modern amenities for granted, so they see them as part of the burden of doing the dishes or doing laundry, rather than relieving the burden of doing those things.

We can load up the dish washer and sit on our duff watching YouTube while a machine does the hard work. Then we just have to suffer through putting the dishes where we want them to go.

This is textbook "first world problems". AI is only expected to solve these first world problems. By definition, these problems are less actually problems that need solving, and more inconveniences that we perceive as problems.

she was commenting more generally about tedious chore-type activities versus fun, creative activities.

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.