[grebc]

There’s not much articulation except some personal snippets about someone caught in the hype cycle of a product, that the hive mind is buzzing about deafeningly.

Tools/improvements have rarely been negative in such a massive way except rare instances, and even then society moved on and past those tools to bigger & better things.

How many people today seriously consider agriculture as a career prospect but almost all humans who lived in the last 2000 years worked as peasant labor on a farm. We are thriving in comparison to that period of time.

[red75prime]

This is the technology that aims to replicate all of the human functionality. So, the aim is unprecedented. You might not be convinced that this aim is achievable (despite having the human brain that achieves it, unlike, say, superluminal travel), but, at least, you might be inclined to recognize that something potentially unprecedented is going on.

[grebc]

Cool. You best worry and stress yourself out about a situation you cannot control then.

[red75prime]

The usual political means (writing to your senator or something appropriate for your country of residency) still work.

[grebc]

Have you done this since you’re concerned?

[therealdrag0]

Just because a generation or two down the line is better off does’t mean a lot of lives aren’t effected negatively when industries are destroyed or moved.

[grebc]

I guess my point is it’s rarely the transformational technology people talk it up to be.

5 years ago absolutely everyone was talking about how blockchains & ledgers were going to solve all the problems of the world, and executives needed blockchain & ledgers in their products. Now, no one cares.

Not saying that happens in this case, but don’t believe the hype so easy. Even job losses in the context of a radically different policies by the current administration doesn’t get a second thought, nor does the fact we’re no longer in a low interest rate environment.

[therealdrag0]

Sure don’t be gullible, of course. I was never sold on blockchain, and there was major skepticism across the industry.

I only know one person who works on crypto projects, and no one who uses crypto for purchases. Yet everyone I know in engineering and non-engineers use AI for work and personal tasks. This is a different ballgame.

It could be the innovation curve stops here and we only have to adapt to Claude 4 level AI. I’m sure there will be headwinds like with driverless cars. But it’s very reasonable to guess where this is going.

[grebc]

I don’t think it’s reasonable at all, but live your life as you see fit.

It’s easy in retrospect to be say “sure, we were sceptical of crypto”. It certainly was not easy then to voice that, nor is it easy now to be sceptical of AI - without being labelled a Luddite or just negative.

Money is a huge factor in all this, people love to discuss the current in thing and what’s more in than some tech that’s IPO’ing? Investors were making stupid money with crypto. Investors again are about to make stupid money with AI.

[therealdrag0]

Investors made stupid money off speculation with crypto.

Investors make money off AI subscriptions for WORK. Thats a huge difference.

[grebc]

Investors are about to make money via an IPO and cashing out equity.

The revenue produced is laughable. If you think it’s the revenue and not the equity that matters, you need to do some serious homework.