If I\u2019m honest, I\u2019ve been feeling hopeless lately. Sometimes I feel like giving up. What\u2019s the point of writing when artificial intelligence will soon automate the book I just spent years on and generate my blog posts faster than I ever could? What\u2019s the point of improving at anything? There is nothing impressive left to do or to learn. This is all there is: staring down the barrel of a life spent inputting and prompting. It feels like the worst time to try.<\/p>\n
Then I started thinking about the next generation, and how bad that feeling must be. Why learn to drive when self-driving cars are coming? Why bother to code or start a company? Why learn to draw, why practice guitar, why study photography, why struggle through academic research? But as I thought about this happening in every direction, all at once, it began to look like an opportunity. When so few seem interested in being a person, isn\u2019t that the best time to be one? Maybe this is a moment for optimism. You just have to be human.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If I\u2019m honest, I\u2019ve been feeling hopeless lately. Sometimes I feel like giving up. What\u2019s the point of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274597,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[365,363,364,111,139,69,145],"class_list":{"0":"post-274596","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-new-zealand","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz","14":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}