[nly]

I would wager in 10 years time we're all looking back in dismay about how AI has just been used to produce an endless stream of fake news, empty-feeling generated content, spam, ads and other forms of monetisation that make our lives miserable.

Some menial administrative jobs that have virtually no value but aren't yet fully automated will be wiped out by conglomerates who offer their white label AI solutions at scale...but that's it.

Think about Google search. Has it really improved much in the last 20 years? Some HN frequents will swear it has gotten worse.

What about your desktop computer? Sure it's about 10x more powerful than 2005, but has having one really changed your life much since then?

Diminishing marginal returns.

[latchkey]

> I would wager in 10 years time we're all looking back in dismay about how AI has just been used to produce an endless stream of fake news, empty-feeling generated content, spam, ads and other forms of monetisation that make our lives miserable.

I don't think we will have wait 10 months for that, let alone 10 years.

[Filligree]

The size of my chat log with ChatGPT speaks against that. The vast majority of the conversations were productive.

Of the remainder, most were highly entertaining—-which is a form of productivity in itself.

[latchkey]

I don't know what you were responding to. We're not talking about personal experiences, we are talking about people using this stuff to annoy others.

[Filligree]

Misunderstanding, maybe? You were responding to an absolute. I’m pointing out there’s plenty of use cases besides that.

[cubefox]

AI progress has strongly sped up in the last years. We have come a long way since the simple digit recognizers. And there is no end in sight, no AI winter. There are no diminishing returns in intelligence. Strong AI is the last invention.