[bugbuddy]

We have lost our collective mind over this stupid AI mania. I am so disappointed with the level immaturity our society displays. There are so much more productive things we could dedicate our time, energy, and effort on like speeding up the transition to renewable energy, reducing waste, developing a more circular economy, cleaning up the oceans and rivers, conservation of natural resources like rainforests and mangroves, and much much more. Instead, we sit around feeding prompts into large expensive computers.

[pixl97]

You act like this is something new. Instead people acting like idiots in mass is the status quo. Just think about the internet before AI, we were taking the most brilliant minds of the generation and having them focus on selling ads. We're a self destructive lot in general.

[cudgy]

Before that, the most brilliant minds were figuring out how to annihilate the world with nuclear bombs. Hmmm … do we need to worry about ourselves?

[BriggyDwiggs42]

These things, in a broad, general sense, are a coordination problem. We need lots of people to act cooperatively with a high degrees of foresight. As a species, this is something we’ve almost never done. When we do it, it’s usually because it arises naturally out of the actions of self-interested individuals. I think the ai hype is founded on this problem, i.e. the observation that humans have continually failed to solve big problems makes the idea of a miracle machine that can solve them for us extremely appealing. ai companies know this so they do lots of sneaky things to cultivate the illusion that they’re on the cusp of such a machine, when human level intelligence that’s actually usable in most domains is still easy 25-30 years off.