It’s from a piece Asimov (American writer and professor of biochemistry) wrote for the New York Times in 1964 imagining the world of 2014, where machines would handle most routine jobs and work itself would become the most prized word in the language, with creative people as the lucky ones on top. Fast forward to 2026, and creative work is what machines took first… Case in point, I make short videos for small brands, and a job that used to take most of my week now fits into an afternoon, with the script coming out of Claude and the footage out of Veo, Argil or Runway before I even open CapCut. The second half of his line still holds up, though, because the clients who get anywhere with these tools come in knowing what they want to say and send the first version back. While most of what lands on my desk to fix is a business owner posting whatever the tool gave them, which is pretty much what he meant by serving a machine. This makes me think he was right about who the elite would be, he just pictured them as the people making things when these days it’s whoever has something to say. Anyway, some food for thought. submitted by /u/larabyeol
Originally posted by u/larabyeol on r/ArtificialInteligence