To be honest, this development is simply the logical consequence of applying the principle of profit maximization.
Unfortunately, technology has now reached such a scale that the people behind the spreadsheets are willing to sacrifice humanity itself.
That, too, is not surprising, because they will only realize their mistake when it is already too late.
Another example of the same principle is climate change.
So did the people who thought a woman’s uterus would fly out of her body if she was traveling on a train at 50kpm.
I’m more than willing to admit I was wrong when AI destroys the world, but I think we’ll find many other things to blame it on before that happens.
I have no idea what you’re getting at, but it’s a fact that every minute - if not every second - AI-generated content is being published that you could never read in your entire lifetime.
That’s the scale we’re talking about.
Try to imagine what that might mean for people who make a living doing anything that could even remotely be called creative work.
Like I said, when the world falls apart, I’ll give you all the credit for being right. Just let me know when it happens.
Its not the world falling apart, just what we understand to be culture.
We thought the machines would take over the jobs to give us time enough to create great works of art of all sorts, and then we find out right at the last minute that actually the machines will be taking care of art because we’re too busy working multiple jobs.
What we understand to be culture changes every fifty years or so. Have you waltzed to a harpsichord or taken the family to a public execution lately? Now, THAT was culture.
Well, in one respect it’s humans - always humans - that cause destruction in one way. Even if some of us try, like backing a carbon offset program that plants trees (in correct places that historically support trees), there’s the rich and powerful creating some other hyperfixation like fast fashion, space races, greed wars, religious wars and witch hunts like the one against AI to cock it up again
On the other hand, I as a builder of tech fucking hate what the obsession with AI has done to the current global economy, and how generative AI is a complete waste of existence as its meaningful use is dwarfed by its cost…
But I do see value in developmental AI, and while it’s little more than a standard algorithmic program with memory, parameters and developer bias, it is useful at doing some work better than us, and much faster. And since the dawn of humanity we’ve been inventing things to make life tasks easier. I do believe that form of AI will persist. In a way, vehemently opposing the AI programs that make calculations or accurate code is about as righteous as refusing to use a hammer to nail together some wood, or making fearmongering pamphlets about the advent of electrified cities.