I'm saying by the time we reach that point, the conceptions of what a person is and what is doable will be radically different.

"Strong AI" right now is mostly good at a couple of tasks or learning straightforward new ones with lots of data.

I see so your argument is that it will be slow enough in development as to not be a problem?

One of my arguments.

No one has strong ai.

Correct.

Not in the "everything you can do the computer can do better"

General AI is not strong AI.

And FWIW, I'm not sure that will necessarily ever happen.

I didn't say better.

Per say.

Like everything I can do the robot will do way better.

But they will be better from an economic stand point.

But can it do all of them together better?

Integration is a fundamental and important task. It's also one that is too easily ignored.

Okay so we'll still have project managers?

But probably not even that, if we get a general intelligence, it should be able to integrate with it's self just fine.

And we'll still have park rangers, and we'll still have artists, and we'll still have government...

I disagree.

You have a hundred tools, you're saying just one more tool will necessarily make them all work together? And know what to build?

there's lots of weird rivets in these things.

Well when we have proff one way or the other we'll see, but the point remains that general AI doesn't have to be better than us as the job, just have to make more sense economically than us.

It's not just "I take API1 and then it gets along with API2"

I know what you mean.

1. that's mostly true
2. it's not that different when you think about it. How do you define "better"

Economically better.

More cost effective.

Then the statement "general AI doesn't have to be better...just make more sense economically" is somewhere between contradictory and tautological.

I'm saying there's other niches and things.

And people will be as much a part of the AI system as the software itself.

Yes but niches aren't going to supply employment for the nation.

And you know this how?

Were you around in the 1st dot com boom?

Yes.

Napstar was amazng.

Then you remember how we were told that every store in the country was going to be dead.

The recording industry was going to die.

Most local stores did die, and the record industry hasn't sold more new music than old music 3 years running.

Sure, there's less profit in running stores now and the recording industry is not as all-powerful as it once was, but Wal-mart is still around Coffee shops are everywhere and there's more music now than ever.

Everyone is making way less money.

No one is buying music, at least no one under 40.