I feel this question is very trite, but Ive been considering how AI hasnt really had its killer app in the consumer market. The military industrial complex has floods of cash and you can see the collaboration between big tech and the government today. Also as conditions worsen the average person is not going to be able to afford the AI toaster or whatever they come up with as a consumer product. I dont see the bourgeois who invested so much into AI pivoting to something else, so the conclusion ive drawn is it will have to be the military that is going to be the main consumer.
Conditions worsening is going to lead to chaos and resistance in the streets and it seems like that is when the government can start deploying their AI-based military applications. Idk what form it woukd take, possibly autonomous systems that put down protests/demos etc.
The AI we have is the same as your phone trying to predict your next word, but scaled up and connected to a coal plant for power. It will never be useful for anything except shitty text and shittier meme pictures.
No, the horrors beyond our comprehension that await us in the future will be made by humans, as they always have been.
It will advance. Just because its in that state now, doesnt mean it will always be.
This is like saying Madlibs will advance to sentience
There isn’t meaningful connection between predictive text algos and genuine general AI though
Correct, but, from my understanding, there is a connection in that the capital employed to build LLMs can also be used for general AI.
And for the record I don’t think text prediction AI is going to become sentient. It will advance in other ways, whatever capitalists want it to be advanced towards. Maybe even it will produce things that we enjoy consuming and cannot distinguish between something a human produced.
No it won’t. This is a dead end, SIlicon Valley trying desperately to get people’s money because infinite growth happens to be finite.