It's much easier to treat it as an art if you do it because you want to, not because you have to.

Like most things in life, really.

Honestly, everything that machines can do, there are some people who love doing it, and there can be an art to it. And for each such thing, other humans hate doing it and prefer automation.

Some people love cleaning, but we have robot vacuums and mops.

Some people love cooking and baking, but we have packaged food that requires minimal or no preparation.

Some people love woodworking or glassblowing, but most of our furniture and household items are mass produced.

Some people love managing their own computer or phone, but most people prefer to just let the manufacturer and operating system do it for them.

Some people love growing food with manual tools, but most farming these days is done with automatic machines.

Some people love driving, others can't wait for self-driving cars or prefer public transport just so they don't have to drive.

The list goes on. Anything can be an art.

I don't know what my stance is on this. I think automation is necessary for the sheer quantities we need. I also think passionate professionals can nearly always do a better job than a machine, but it's obviously more expensive and can't keep up with demand.

I guess the difference is that drawing and writing only have value as art. If I don't like drawing I almost never have to do it, but if I don't like preparing food I either suck it up and do it anyway hating every moment, or it can be (and, in fact, is) a serious detriment for my health and well-being.

Exactly, I'm not a bad cook, I'm a starving artist!

No one is making an art piece every meal.

It's not hyped in the media, probably because it's Chinese companies doing it, but there have been massive strides towards creating humanoid robotics in the past couple of years. They aren't nearly to the point of being autonomous but there's a simple humanoid robot that's selling for 5900 today.

Yeah, that robotics stuff is happening still (e.g. little robot mowers using machine vision for easier guidance).

But you are right that the prospect of advanced robotics gets a fraction of the attention that chatbots get. Trillions of bets on datacenter bound LLMs that can generate images, videos, and text but a relative pittance for advancements that would translate to physical labor..

I get that there's value, but the value proposition seems way out of whack.

there is plenty of work going on autonomous front but its solely focused on means to kill the peasants who try to inconvenience the oligarchs. take a look at palmers anduril industries. there are other such companies based in the confederate states.

It’ll get worse and more boring.

Die so the rich don’t have to pay out taxes on retirement or social programs

What happened to horses when the internal combustion engine became popular?