Thanks for introducing me to this creator, I ended up watching his video on crypto games too and it was really good. Definitely a new subscribe.
Whenever I see headlines like this I read “technological advancement is bad cause I don’t understand it”.
Technological advancement is cool. Widening the power divide between megacorporations and the general population and allowing rich assholes to have greater power and control over the average person is not cool, and unfortunately, that’s what technological advancement is doing.
Whenever I see replies like this I read either
“I have no ability to think through, or no interest in considering, the ramifications or evaluating risks before evangelizing a piece of tech”
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“I’m too selfish to consider anyone else but myself”
The problem is almost always with our society and not the technology itself. AI is fine, the way people are using it and the fact that people need jobs to exist in society isn’t.
Whenever I get worried about new technology I think of the Luddites, then I am less worried
All technological advancements have caused changes, many have made entire professions obsolete.
One could even be allowed to imagine that science itself ought to have put priests out of a job, yet that hasn’t happened yet either.
“AI” is a generic term that’s being thrown around a lot.
There’s a huge distance from today’s AI, which at its best is generative AI based on large language models, to actual General AI that is able to learn, understand, and adapt.
Sure, you can train a language model, but it doesn’t make it “smarter” in the same instance.
What do you think the authors of the video don’t understand? You must have some insights if you say you understand AI better then everyone criticizing it.
What do you think the authors of the video don’t understand?
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Nuance. It’s clear they’re trying to turn a complex issue into a simple black and white one.
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Futility. The “AI Revolution” is happening and nothing will stop it or meaningfully slow it down. If you’re worried about it (and everyone should be) then you need to think about how it can be made better, not how it can be stopped.
You must have some insights if you say you understand AI better then everyone criticizing it.
I’m not the person you replied to, but I do agree with them. I don’t claim to understand AI better than everyone who’s critical and I doubt the person you replied to would make that claim either.
Your argument of futility is truly horrifying.
AI must be stopped. We must fight it at every turn. To do otherwise is to willingly accept a horrific dystopian future
Concluding that something is scary or dystopian doesn’t make it less true. There is literally no way that we can stop AI. It’s code that anyone can download and run.
So no matter how awful and demonstrably harmful something is, we should just accept it because it’s “inevitable”?
If and only if it’s inevitable, then yes.
How are you going to convince ten billion people not to use AI? You can’t do it.
So no matter how awful and demonstrably harmful something is, we should just accept it because it’s “inevitable”?
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