[deadbabe]

Emergent behavior tends to be more interesting to programmers than users.

Consider game AI. You could make really complex AI with neural networks and such, but most of the time it adds nothing to the game and the user can’t even tell the difference from classically programmed AI. The devs probably think it’s super cool though.

This is how it will be for other stuff. People are impressed with some no-code travel agent AI powered by LLMs but with some thought you could pretty much make the same thing with scripting and it works predictably 100% of the time and utilizing far less power and compute.

If entire humans can be replaced by simple programs, the logic dictates AI can also be replaced by simple programs even if the AI functions at human level intelligence. I fail to see a compelling business case for AI.