Comment by biophysboy
1 day ago
Even among the more sane AI enthusiasts, I find that many have a weirdly millenialist zeal in their hot takes: getting defensive about its practical capability or reasoning capacity, hyperventilating about an imminent utopia/dystopia, etc.
I am on team boring. AI is technology.
Yeah, nothing ever happens. Except in the current day and age, decades happen in weeks, so the same happening with AI is not a stretch. I mean, just consider the capabilities of LLMs - if you look at it from a pre-COVID perspective, even knowing all limitations and strange failure modes up front, it's insanely impressive. To say that AI can contribute to a quickly arriving dystopia (not sure about utopia) is far from unreasonable.
What's your perspective? I see transformation that could bring pain to a few professions, but not a world war level catastrophe...