Comment by hackable_sand

It's hard to say.

Perhaps being at the epicenter of Silicon Valley's nouveau AI revolution tinted my glasses.

But I remember a distinct air of optimism, that humanity was working towards some breakthrough in the fundamental secrets of consciousness.

Let me be frank, it doesn't matter how well the machine works if it is weaponized against people.

If it systematically degrades our humanity.

I am a pacifist, so I believe in the inherit value of living things. I expected something graceful and beautiful, with unquestionable value to the people interacting with it.

Instead Silicon Valley produced slave-humunculi, stunted aberrations of "intelligence". This entire movement is basically a two-faced insult to life.

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That being said, for all the things LLMs are capable of, you could pay a living, breathing person to do, more efficiently, faster, and for cheaper.

So the entire effort was for... what?