[jmclnx]

The last thing want is to talk to a AI bot when calling a company or health provider with questions. Due to where I live and my accent, these voice bots never work. So, anything to stop these from being commercialized is good to me.

But these articles about AI are nuts, some state AI will destroy all life on Earth. That was a headline I ran across that was suppose to be signed by some scientists. I did not read it because it sounded crazy.

Also, these GPT* things is not really AI, but word/sentence parsers and probably some fancy database lookup.

[humanistbot]

> But these articles about AI are nuts, some state AI will destroy all life on Earth. That was a headline I ran across that was suppose to be signed by some scientists. I did not read it because it sounded crazy.

I'm going to give you some advice, without taking a stance on the content of that open letter one way or the other. If you do not engage with someone or some group because you think they 'sound crazy' based solely on a news headline, you are only limiting yourself.

Do yourself a favor and go read it for yourself, and make your own judgement about whether it is crazy. Maybe you read it and your suspicions are confirmed: you do think it is crazy, but now you have a first-hand view of exactly how crazy it is, and you can think about how to react given that influential people hold views you think are crazy. Or maybe you read it and your suspicions are overturned, and you have a first-hand view of a new perspective.

But if you just say "that's crazy, I'm not reading that" based on a news headline, you're letting a very superficial take determine your information diet. You're not even reading the article itself, just the headline! And the primary source the article and headline is based on is right there, it is relatively short.

And journalists don't even get to write their own headlines, which is a huge issue within journalism. Headline writing is a dedicated role that has been SEO-ed to death. If you're a journalist, it is taboo to publicly blame your headline writers for the stupid, reductionist, and misleading titles they gave the piece you wrote, but every journalist has stories to tell about how much they hate their headline writers.