Future Tech & AI

"In previous decades, the world’s fertility rate went down because couples had fewer children. Now the main reason is that there are fewer couples………………….across a wide range of countries, the decline in births and coupling is much steeper among those with the least education and lowest incomes. By contrast, the share of university graduates forming couples and having children is stable or even rising in some cases."

This makes me wonder about correlation and causation. If the poorer working class people acquired smartphones at the same time as their wages & housing opportunities drastically decreased, who is to blame for their lack of babies?

Ironically, the people who get most worked up about this issue are the least likely to countenance political changes that might reverse the trends. Anyway, today's 8 billion people seem like plenty of humans. Who cares if there's never 10 or 20 billion?

Why birth rates are falling everywhere all at once: Homes and phones are part of the reason for the demographic shift changing our world

A while ago, I used to write short posts about art online.

I didn’t think about art in a very academic way. I just felt that art shouldn’t only belong to rich people, museums, or people with professional training.

Sometimes a song, a painting, or even a simple object in daily life can comfort someone, especially when life feels difficult.

Now AI can generate images so fast, and some of them really do look beautiful.

But this makes me a bit confused.

If everyone can make beautiful images with AI, then maybe beauty itself is not enough anymore.

Maybe the more important question becomes: what is the person trying to say?

Did they have a real feeling behind it?
Did they make a real choice?
Or did they just type a prompt and pick the most impressive result?

I don’t think AI will destroy art. But I do think it may make us rethink what counts as art.

Maybe there will be different levels of AI art in the future. Some will just be decoration. Some will be made for attention. Some may still carry real human experience, even if AI helped make it.

I’m still not sure where the line is.

Can AI art still feel real to you if the human behind it has a strong idea? Or does the use of AI already make it feel less valuable?

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