Hmmm...can technology be truly "intelligent?"
Eh - define "truly intelligent".
Most any park ranger can tell you there is more overlap than most would think in the reasoning ability of the smartest bears and raccoons and the dumbest humans where food is concerned.
As far as business is concerned AI really just has to be "good enough" to be able to replace people doing whatever the job is. It doesn't have to be an Einstein. It just has to be "smart enough" to steer the customer to the correct answer more often than not. Or, to produce code that doesn't take any more debugging than that produced by the average mid-level or jr. level developer. In other words, "intelligent enough" to do 80 to 90% of the work with a few humans left over to guide it or clean up it's messes.
Art has been a topic in this thread, so I'll leave that till last.
Lets look at coding, customer service, HR, and any number of white collar "back office" type jobs. Can AI do them as good as human? No, not usually. But, AI do them "good enough" and it is certainly faster and cheaper than humans. This is allowing businesses to do lots of layoff's for replacing humans with AI....and..largely.. nobody cared. Well, except for the people laid off and their families.
Now to tackle art. Do humans make better art than AI? Usually, yes. Does AI do it faster, cheaper and make it far more accessible to far more people? Yes, it does. Art has never really had to compete with machines before the way other ways of making a living have. Its been a long time since craftsman first saw what took them weeks to produce being done by a machine in a few hours. Automation had been chipping away at white collar jobs for some time. AI took that forward at rocket speed. Now artists are having to compete with machines as well. I honestly suspect artists will not fare any better than craftsmen and coders.
I'll use craftsmen as an example. Some people want a hand made table and are willing to pay for it. But most people are perfectly happy with a cheap, mass produced table. I predict art will follow the same path. Are there a few craftsmen left? Yup. Are there as many craftsmen left as there were before the industrial revolution? Nope, nowhere near. This is another revolution.
As I said above, AI already has "fast and cheap" going for it. As long as it is "intelligent enough" to do the job then businesses are going to favor it over humans.
What can be done about it? Nothing most likely. You could choose not to buy AI art. But that's just a drop in the bucket. Plenty of people will buy it. You can't really choose not to do business with a company that has replaced most of their back office people with AI, simply because you usually have no way of knowing or you just have to because there aren't many companies left that don't use AI.
