I think this whole piece is just a collection of lazy cliches.
- Rug pull scam
What's going to happen when the AI companies jack up prices 20x to meet API prices? 1: they won't, because they'll get their lunch eaten immediately by 2: the local models that are almost as good that you can run yourself (with a few thousand in hardware costs).
- AI is not intelligent
This doesn't matter at all, as long as it performs the task who cares? It's better that it's not intelligent because otherwise we'd be enslaving it. A plane doesn't flap its wings but it gets you somewhere - without actually "flying".
Hallucinations are also clearly way less prevalent than, say, 2023. Perhaps it's not possible to get rid of them totally, but there's much fewer.
- AI is the most successful con man in history
If this is true, won't AI-free companies soon outcompete ones that use AI? I'm afraid this is just wishful thinking. You can easily create complete garbage with AI but if you know how to code you can also be much more productive, hence why so many renowned programmers, mathematicians, creators of languages and so on use it.
- AI is killing the environment and destroying people’s lives
How could a data centre be polluting the water with rust? The power problem is true but the amount of land used by them is miniscule.
- AI will lead to a tyrannical police state
It could contribute, but we've had surveillance since long before AI. The Stasi had mass surveillance without even computers (which I would say have been much more conducive to the proliferation of surveillance).
- Nobody knows what AI even is
Then what did you just spend the rest of the page complaining about?
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I think this whole piece is just a collection of lazy cliches.
- Rug pull scam
What's going to happen when the AI companies jack up prices 20x to meet API prices? 1: they won't, because they'll get their lunch eaten immediately by 2: the local models that are almost as good that you can run yourself (with a few thousand in hardware costs).
- AI is not intelligent
This doesn't matter at all, as long as it performs the task who cares? It's better that it's not intelligent because otherwise we'd be enslaving it. A plane doesn't flap its wings but it gets you somewhere - without actually "flying".
Hallucinations are also clearly way less prevalent than, say, 2023. Perhaps it's not possible to get rid of them totally, but there's much fewer.
- AI is the most successful con man in history
If this is true, won't AI-free companies soon outcompete ones that use AI? I'm afraid this is just wishful thinking. You can easily create complete garbage with AI but if you know how to code you can also be much more productive, hence why so many renowned programmers, mathematicians, creators of languages and so on use it.
- AI is killing the environment and destroying people’s lives
How could a data centre be polluting the water with rust? The power problem is true but the amount of land used by them is miniscule.
- AI will lead to a tyrannical police state
It could contribute, but we've had surveillance since long before AI. The Stasi had mass surveillance without even computers (which I would say have been much more conducive to the proliferation of surveillance).
- Nobody knows what AI even is
Then what did you just spend the rest of the page complaining about?
Thanks for writing this! Was about to say something adjacent but much less structured and precise.