Comment by dartos
14 hours ago
> a lot of people nevertheless are drawn to interact with this technology.
To look at this statement cynically, a lot of people are drawn to anything with billions of dollars behind it… like literally anything.
Not to mention the amount companies spend on marketing AI products.
> It looks as if it touches some deep psychological lever: have an assistant that can help to carry out tasks
That deep lever is “make value more cheaply and with less effort”
From what I’ve seen, most of the professional interest in AI is based on cost cutting.
There are a few (what I would call degenerate) groups who believe there is some consciousness behind these AI, but theyre very small group.
When I was a kid I messed with computers because they were new, fun, and interesting. At the time I never realized they'd be my source of a living in the future.
Current AI has brought back a lot of that wonder and interest for me, and I'm sure the same is true for a lot of other computer nerds.