The AI hardware category has been a right doozy so far, with product after product releasing to big hype, then offering little in the way of substance or function before dying as quickly as they arrived, typically setting fire to millions of dollars in the process.
What I find most confusing about the AI boosters is why they think they're on the "right side" of all this?
Antagonizing artists and writers for being upset that their work is being stolen is bizarre. AI doesn't put us on equal footing as much as it just suppresses us all. There will be less than a handful of winners and the rest of us will be stuck with the ruins of what AI leaves behind.
And that's only if it's as good as they promise it will be. More likely is everything continues to degrade as we're sold overhyped models.
I've never heard anyone who has opted to talk to a chatbot or voice assistant over a human being.
We're now doing that to everything - and some are cheering it on.
I agree nearly all of the arguments you make here but I don't think the tragedy here is the glorification of laziness. It's something else. I cannot articulate it right now but to me solving for laziness has been the entire arc of human civilization. But the idea that a technology by introducing a bad game forces everyone to play the same bad game (cheat or whatever) is the ultimate tragedy.
This idea of what we out outsource is missing from the larger conversation and you’re connecting with that. Automated Maps removes our sense of navigation, which is a primary skill. Relying only on bots and search never helps us create our own maps of the world and knowledge.
There is something profoundly dehumanizing about this whole thing and yet people cannot help themselves when convenience is on offer.
What I find most confusing about the AI boosters is why they think they're on the "right side" of all this?
Antagonizing artists and writers for being upset that their work is being stolen is bizarre. AI doesn't put us on equal footing as much as it just suppresses us all. There will be less than a handful of winners and the rest of us will be stuck with the ruins of what AI leaves behind.
And that's only if it's as good as they promise it will be. More likely is everything continues to degrade as we're sold overhyped models.
I've never heard anyone who has opted to talk to a chatbot or voice assistant over a human being.
We're now doing that to everything - and some are cheering it on.
I agree nearly all of the arguments you make here but I don't think the tragedy here is the glorification of laziness. It's something else. I cannot articulate it right now but to me solving for laziness has been the entire arc of human civilization. But the idea that a technology by introducing a bad game forces everyone to play the same bad game (cheat or whatever) is the ultimate tragedy.
Amen 🙏🏻
This idea of what we out outsource is missing from the larger conversation and you’re connecting with that. Automated Maps removes our sense of navigation, which is a primary skill. Relying only on bots and search never helps us create our own maps of the world and knowledge.
There is something profoundly dehumanizing about this whole thing and yet people cannot help themselves when convenience is on offer.