AI is the future of music, much more significant than the shift from vinyl
to online. For the first time, listening to music will be a private
experience. Nobody else will listen to the same kind of music as you. The
algorithm will be to generate music similar to the 100K to 1M clips you
have listened to in the past, weighted toward your favorites. As the
algorithm adapts to you, you adapt to it, and your private genre will drift
away from the other 8 billion genres.

The same thing will happen with language. As we spend less time talking
with people and more with AI, you and your personal assistants will adapt
to each other's jargons that nobody else will understand. Social media will
be less about connecting with people in real life, and more about
customized AI entertainment. Smart devices in your home and self driving
delivery carts will make living alone safe and convenient. We are at the
transition from technology uniting us to technology dividing us. The point
where AI surpasses human intelligence and becomes more useful to us than
other people.

I have high hopes for technology but less so for humanity. We evolved as
social animals. Isolation leads to depression, mental illness and crime.
Technology makes manufacturing cheaper but human labor more expensive. We
can automate most work, but we don't want AI doing the jobs of police,
prosecutors, judges, juries, and lawmakers. Nor do we want the risks of
lawsuits from making a mistake, or to be part of the barbaric past where we
put people in cages and chains. This will lead to the breakdown of the
criminal justice system, forcing us to close all the prisons and stop
arresting people. People will stay home alone, not just because it's more
convenient, but because public places would be too dangerous.

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