| > AI will go no differently than the Industrial Revolution. So it is different this time is it? "We" are different? Unlike the 99.9% of species that went extinct, and continue to go extinct, we can't be supplanted? Obsoleted? Out competed? [0] A few thousand years at the top of the food chain, and suddenly that few thousand years is "what can never change". Technological change already drives machine cognitive progress forward faster than any human who has ever lived. That factor alone makes competence/capability obsolescence unavoidable, outside of technological collapse. This is an unprecedented rate of real-time change, outside of instant disasters like volcanic eruptions or comet impacts, in direct competition with human capabilities. SciFi has been broadcasting the potential and risk of AI for a couple centuries. This is a spectacular moment in the universe's history, assuming we don't blow ourselves up. Not just another day for humankind. There must be a word for the inability to see the import of change. It seems to be a common disability. This seems to be a real effect: The faster things go, the less sensitive we are to the rate of change. Precisely because we can't imagine what the world will be like in a decade, our horizon shrinks, and we treat short intervals as if they were long intervals. Anything that isn't instant feels like it is barely moving. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinction |
LLMs are a useful technology. They have no relation to AI terminator bots other than being called the same name out of marketing and laziness.