Comment by mindwok

I am pretty exhausted with reading the cynical takes on AI lately. Like, I get it, but ugh.

Yes, the tech isn't perfect yet. Yes, it means existing industries will be displaced. Yes, it threatens to undermine the identities we have built as useful artists, programmers, data analysts, whatever. It is a scary, uncertain future, and on some days I am overcome with dread about what it means for me.

But ffs, we will figure it out. This technology, if it continues to improve at the pace it has, will open the door to us solving previously intractable problems - problems like curing cancer, endless energy and nuclear fusion, making us 100x more productive at building great housing and infrastructure. Let's get on board and make this thing a success, not fight it every step of the way because we want to preserve some basically arbitrary state of society.