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sc94597 5 hours ago
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Ryuu96 said:

In fairness, I said I was middle of the road on it, not that it would be the next cryptocurrency or metaverse, two utterly irrelevant things that benefit next to nobody, Lmao. AI has at least got off the ground, I can't really say the same for either of those two, they had like a year of hype, maybe not even that, then came crashing down, of course now that Musk is in Gov they'll probably be another push for cryptocurrency to be relevant.

I'm not convinced it will change the world like the tech companies are hyping it up, I'm not convinced we're anywhere close to things like AGI, I just think it will provide some good and some bad changes, the medical field is one area where I think AI will have a lot of beneficial uses, it's largely the tech industry, like OpenAI, Microsoft, Meta, etc. Who I'm accusing of massively overhyping how AI is going to change the world and everyone's lives, it's just the next opposite extreme of those who say AI is going to kill us all and watched too much Terminator, Lol.

I'm also unconvinced that investors will stick with it long enough, they're already growing a tad frustrated at the level of money being pumped into AI initiatives without much return, when it comes to AGI...I'm really unconvinced and then there's people like Sam Altman who I really get a bad vibe from, there's something about him that screams "scam artist" to me, Lol. I'm not sure why Microsoft tried so hard to save him.

Sorry, I didn't mean to put words in your mouth. Was talking more generally, as I've seen a lot of people who are skeptical of the impact of this research compare it to crypto-currencies and the metaverse. 

I think at the very minimum, regardless of whether human-level autonomous agents are created in the next half-decade or so (although I think they will be), even with the current technologies that already exist there is going to be a lot of economic dislocation. That alone is a "world-changing" impact. We are very close to a huge number of office and call center jobs being fully automated. These are median-income jobs that many economies (and more importantly -- families) depend on.  

Even without AGI, these technologies probably will be world-changing in that they are already having an effect on head-counts and potentially causing more un(der)-employment.