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I cannot imagine the future

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Just yesterday a colleague of mine pointed out to me some recent advancements of Artificial Intelligence.  It sure feels like science fiction. Everything is progressing so fast that I feel overwhelmed. Maybe I should just ask ChatGPT what to do about that. 1. MATHS: Google DeepMind publishes (25 July 2024): AI achieves silver-medal standard solving International Mathematical Olympiad problems 2. ROBOTICS: Walking, jumping robots. This is what Boston Dynamics can achieve (the video is already two years old) 3. ROBOTICS AND AI: OpenAI Speech-to-Speech reasoning (now you can also talk with your robot). 4. CREATING VIDEO FROM TEXT: Just write a one-line-prompt and Sora - by OpenAI - generates a video about it (it is in development right now). It is hard for me to imagine the future. With so many technological capabilities, will we be able to produce more joyful human beings? In what will humans employ their time? Will our conception of 'being human' and our sense of worth as &