[kwatsonafter]

This too is hype.

I'll make you a bet that in the next 5 years we have high resolution video generation through DALL-E or the like and it's primary use case is going to be auto-generating pornographic advertisements. The Internet was developed with lofty ideals in mind; what is AI's lofty ideal? The end of labor? The end of creativity? The commodification of innovation?

You've got 50 meaningful social problems you've got to solve (education, inequality, globalization, power laws) before you've got a kind of society that can integrate automated systems into itself without creating easy to predict problems. Given historical realities it's far more likely that the great wealth created by a theoretical, "AI Summer" will be unevenly enjoyed by most people; again this is the historical norm.

The invention of the tractor didn't liberate farmers from labor. The Phoebus Cartel, "invented" planned obsolescence in modern design and we still consume, "limited life" lightbulbs partially as a result of their thinking, and for the most part the Internet hasn't fostered a generation of scientists and engineers by, "democratizing" information.

[Kalanos]

but info is democratized. tractors (wheat threshers) helped create a surplus of food and there is way less backbreaking labor present today. our standard of living is better because of technology.

I'm literally writing this from a computational biology conference where researchers are presenting on how ML accelerates the development of therapeutics to reduce human suffering: https://www.iscb.org/ismb2022-program/abstracts/mlcsb