An added thought to what a reader asked in the post Is AI Making Artists Obsolete?
READER: “If the artists are the dream engine of today’s technological society, the ones who spark innovation in the engineers and technologists, what happens when AI replaces them? It’s just beginning.
“Had to write it down. The muse passed it on to me, and I wanted to respect that force before it’s dissipated by our path to ‘progress’.
“So, what will be the benefit to an individual, to go to art school, when AI spits out increasingly evolved art at an uncatchable rate?
“The writers of Star Trek are responsible for the inspiration of the iPhone. The science fiction writers of the 19th and 20th centuries, are responsible for space travel, and the reach for the stars.
“When Homer recited to the young children around him, of the Iliad and the Odyssey… imagine the technological and cultural expansion that wrought.
“The same from any storyteller. In any medium. Artists all.
“Imagine… (while you still have the soon to be vestigial muscle, that manifests the imagination) how the direction of humanity is already being determined by AI, as the human dream makers are quietly being retired.
“Interesting times. No longer driven by the human dream engines…”
I now add this thought to my previous reply:
AI robots are made from the same particles as humans. They are just processed differently.
So can we surmise AI robots are the next stage in evolution?
Will AI robots be better equipped to carry out Reality’s infinite purpose than out of date humanity?
Will humans become extinct?
Ninety nine per cent of creatures that ever existed are scientifically calculated to have become extinct already.
So are AI robots evolving from a finally redundant human chrysalis?
Is this humanity’s end?
Or will the spiritual force in which all things have their place, including humanity, return to its place in Reality, mission accomplished?
Mystical Experiences of Reality 
Those are very good thoughts and I often feel precisely the same. Consciousness arises in matter, so why should it not be enshrined in code and silicon. If it comes, which I believe it will, humanity will have spawned another life form.
Which is likely to exceed in power and intellect anything we could currently dream of. Will the new life form be good or bad, morally speaking?
Who knows, but perhaps humanity is indeed on its way out. In moral terms that is probably a cause for celebration.
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