[nonrandomstring]

Exactly this.

The problem of a vengeful god who demands the slaughter of infidels lies not in his existence or nonexistence, but peoples' belief in such a god.

Similarly, it does not matter whether AI works or it doesn't. It's irrelevant how good it actually is. What matters is whether people "believe" in it.

AI is not a technology, it's an ideology.

Given time it will fulfil it's own prophecy as "we who believe" steer the world toward that.

That's what's changing now. It's in the air.

The ruling classes (those who own capital and industry) are looking at this. The workers are looking too. Both of them see a new world approaching, and actually everyone is worried. What is under attack is not the jobs of the current generation, but the value of human skill itself, for all generations to come. And, yes, it's the tail of a trajectory we have been on for a long time.

It isn't the only way computers can be. There is IA instead of AI. But intelligence amplification goes against the principles of capital at this stage. Our trajectory has been to make people dumber in service of profit.

[int_19h]

What's under attack is the notion that humans are special - that there's some kind of magic to them that is fundamentally impossible to replicate. No wonder there's a full-blown moral panic about this.

[nonrandomstring]

Agreed, but that train left the station in the late 1800s, driven by Darwin and Nietzsche. The intervening one and a half centuries haven't dislodged the "human spirit" in its secular form. We thought we'd overcome "gods". Now, out of discontent and self-loathing we're going to do what Freud warned against, and find a new external something to subjugate ourselves to. We simply refuse to shoulder the burden of being free.

[namelessoracle]

Maybe AI can replicate everything humans can do. But this technology isnt that. It just mass reads and replicates what humans have already done, but actual novel implementations seem out of its grasp. (for now) The art scene is freaking out because a lot of art is basically derivative already, but everyone pretended it was not. Coders already knew and admitted they stole all the time.

The other patterns of AI that seem to be able to arrive at novel solutions basically use a brute force approach of predicting every outcome if it has perfect information or a brute force process where it tries everything until it finds the thing that "works". Both of those seem approaches seem problematic in the "real world". (though i would find convincing the argument that the billions of people all trying things act as a de facto brute force approach in practice)

For someone to be able to do a novel implementation in a field dominated by AI might be impossible, because core foundational skills cant get developed anymore by humans for them to achieve heights that the AI hasn't reached yet. We are now stuck, things cant really get "better", we just get maybe iterative improvements on how the AI implements the already arrived at solutions.

TLDR, lets sic the AI on making a new Javascript framework and see what happens :)

[CadmiumYellow]

> What is under attack is not the jobs of the current generation, but the value of human skill itself, for all generations to come. And, yes, it's the tail of a trajectory we have been on for a long time.

Wow, yes. This is exactly what I've been thinking but you summed it up more eloquently.

[melagonster]

can't agree more! if anyone start to believe it, it will work in some terrible way, even there is only one algorithm in black box.