WRT Brent Orrell's AI article: Here is my hot take on this--things could go better (or even worse) so this is kind of the middle ground take. The rollout of AI is going to be like the rollout of social media--which means it is going to be a blazing hot mess that is largely injurious to the existing social/political order and have enormou…
Here is my hot take on this--things could go better (or even worse) so this is kind of the middle ground take. The rollout of AI is going to be like the rollout of social media--which means it is going to be a blazing hot mess that is largely injurious to the existing social/political order and have enormous economic impact.
In the rush to monetize it, a lot of things will be "overlooked" or simply ignored (as too expensive or as slowing things down too much). Mistakes will be made. Huge mistakes. Very expensive mistakes (and usually expensive for the government or private citizens, not the corps pushing the stuff). It is too important to let this stuff fail or let the corps take their punishment for being stupid with it!!!! Gotta win this race.
Subsidies and big government contracts.
The only actual and time critical race here is the leveraging of AI for military applications (especially in aerospace--like replacing human pilots with AI, freeing aircraft from the limitations of having to carry a human with all the inherent limitations--and that will go slow because the air force is run by a bunch of people who are or were pilots, who don't want pilots replaced).
We are going to have AI bots running rampant in the media and being utilized to create ever more intricate and convincing fake news and opinion (not that humans need a lot of help with that). AI manipulation of the financial markets. That should be a doozy.
Basically so corporations can automate more stuff and cut staffing even more... and then kind of fall on their faces "supervising" it with actual human experts (who will be increasingly overworked dealing with the volume of AI garbage generated).
The Federal government will be a day late and a dollar short in trying to deal with it or regulate it because, if they weren't, then they would be getting in the way of monetizing the stuff--and we can't have that! There will be lots of important committee meetings though with lots of sound bites.
Another chapter of human beings rushing headlong into stuff they don't actually understand and without a lot of thought about how it will play out--or much effort to try and ameliorate things until long after the fact. Totally unsurprising.
WRT Brent Orrell's AI article:
Here is my hot take on this--things could go better (or even worse) so this is kind of the middle ground take. The rollout of AI is going to be like the rollout of social media--which means it is going to be a blazing hot mess that is largely injurious to the existing social/political order and have enormous economic impact.
In the rush to monetize it, a lot of things will be "overlooked" or simply ignored (as too expensive or as slowing things down too much). Mistakes will be made. Huge mistakes. Very expensive mistakes (and usually expensive for the government or private citizens, not the corps pushing the stuff). It is too important to let this stuff fail or let the corps take their punishment for being stupid with it!!!! Gotta win this race.
Subsidies and big government contracts.
The only actual and time critical race here is the leveraging of AI for military applications (especially in aerospace--like replacing human pilots with AI, freeing aircraft from the limitations of having to carry a human with all the inherent limitations--and that will go slow because the air force is run by a bunch of people who are or were pilots, who don't want pilots replaced).
We are going to have AI bots running rampant in the media and being utilized to create ever more intricate and convincing fake news and opinion (not that humans need a lot of help with that). AI manipulation of the financial markets. That should be a doozy.
Basically so corporations can automate more stuff and cut staffing even more... and then kind of fall on their faces "supervising" it with actual human experts (who will be increasingly overworked dealing with the volume of AI garbage generated).
The Federal government will be a day late and a dollar short in trying to deal with it or regulate it because, if they weren't, then they would be getting in the way of monetizing the stuff--and we can't have that! There will be lots of important committee meetings though with lots of sound bites.
Another chapter of human beings rushing headlong into stuff they don't actually understand and without a lot of thought about how it will play out--or much effort to try and ameliorate things until long after the fact. Totally unsurprising.