[pluc]

Sounds about right. Let's throw more money, power and natural resources at it and see if the scale tips the other way! If not well nothing of value will have been lost right? What's shortening humanity's lifetime in comparison to the potential productivity gains!

[uh_uh]

Aren't you at least a little bit excited for the potential benefits?

[vundercind]

My spouse and I both work on different ends of AI work (spouse, content production, editing, and prompt-library building; me, feeding the things with data).

No, not really. They're useful but not revolutionary for actual productive work, and I'm being generous in dubbing some AI-based products themselves "productive" (I eagerly await the studies that I'm sure the companies building these things will not bother to do, proving that these are cost/benefit better than other approaches they're replacing—I definitely don't consider it certain that they are).

They shine when the fewest shits are given, which is mostly work that didn't need to be done in the first place, and... mass scams/astroturfing/spam. Hooray.

I don't really see this balance tipping much with the general approach the field's pursuing now.

[nunez]

I’m excited about AI technologies that supplement human capability, like driving autonomy and document search.

I’m not excited about AI technologies that replace human capabilities, like pretty much everything that seems to be getting investment dollars these days.

AI-generated art aside (which is mostly terrible), I’m already having a tough time telling what’s real and what’s not online. The thought of this bleeding into daily life in big ways is depressing.

I’m also not thrilled about a generation of people that struggle to write a paragraph of critical or original thought because of AI dependency.

The last act of Up was supposed to be a warning, not an end-goal.

[pluc]

I am not. If AI delivers on its promises, an unprecedented dumbing down of humanity is to follow. If it doesn't, it was all a waste. Even if we win, we lose.

[uh_uh]

Is there anything AI (or more like AGI) could do for you that would change your opinion? Eternal life, interstellar travel, curing diseases, educating people with superhuman patience and competence would not be worth it?