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How to Handle the Demise of Every Human Talent?

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Context: AI can now program, draw, animate, create music, do math, write, and probably many more things, almost equally/equally/better than most/all humans, and at scale. Probably, soon it will close the last gaps. Since I was young, I wanted to "leave my mark on the world". It didn't have to be a big mark - or maybe it did - but whatever. I wanted to create, or discover, something, that will be remembered or used long after I'm gone (e.g. Olympic athletes, social people, and murderers do leave some kind of impact on the world, but it wasn't what I wanted). I learned to program at around 10, I started doing my first degree (computer science) at 13, and now (early twenties) I'm doing my PhD, in... AI. I do have some achievements I'm proud of. Around 14, I created some multiplayer video games that went somewhat popular in my school, and people literally played it quite often, around 5-10 people together (we had a lab in the school and it was forbidden to play games there, however they "only helped me debug my game"). I left this school at some point, however I continued to program games until about 18, and am still proud of each, even the ones no one besides me played. I invited a st

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