As the author said:
>I suspect that like the job market, everyone will wind up paying massive “AI” companies to manage the drudgery they created.
It could lead to significant progress in every single research area.
I'm at least very impressed about the amount of open models and that it doesn't hold up that the gap between public and private diverges massivly. Public is probably one year behind.
That is not known. Things could easily just get worse, and IMO that is far more likely. Every civilisation has collapsed, ours is clearly in decline, and AI could likely accelerate that decline.
I'm not exactly seeing the progress here. AI helps us write some software a bit faster? Doesn't seem revolutionary to me. Is it having any significant impact on peoples lives other than the various economic forces? I'm not seeing it.
> Yeah, because you voted with your dollars
In our system? No. In crony capitalism the companies who win do it through manipulating the political system. And when the government inflates the currency and destroys people buying power they simply cannot afford to "vote with their dollars". This is hilariously naive.
This is the definition of doomerism. Of all the ways each society has adapted to industrializaion, of all the technologies we've adapted to, and our continued use of all of them despite any negative impacts, you think an LLM is going to end things? An overcomplicated autocomplete?
There is no evidence whatsoever that suggests our society would collapse under AI. An imagination is not evidence. I mean, it's just a tool! Like the car, the telephone, the genetically engineered seed. Humans always freak out when they see something they don't understand. But it turns out there's no tool we have created that we can't control. We're stupid, but we're not idiots.