How do You Feel About AI (artificial intelligence)?

How do you feel about AI?

  • AI is absolutely amazing and I love everything about it!

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • I see a lot of benefits to AI but I am a little concerned about how it'll affect jobs.

    Votes: 11 28.9%

  • AI is bound to become self-aware and I'm terrified.

    Votes: 16 42.1%

  • eh, whatever - I couldn't care one way or another about AI.

    Votes: 11 28.9%
  • Total voters
    38
The other day I heard the progression of AI compared to the field of aviation. They referenced the fact that the speed of flight experienced hyperbolic advancement at first, then began to flatten out to the point where there have been very few advancements, if any, in several decades.

Their opinion (and mine) is that conventional AI will soon begin to experience much slower growth along the same lines.

It's the quiet evolution of unknown types of "AI" we humans don't even recognize as such (anyone else read "Hyperion"?) until it's too late that scares me.
 
sm31 said:
The other day I heard the progression of AI compared to the field of aviation. They referenced the fact that the speed of flight experienced hyperbolic advancement at first, then began to flatten out to the point where there have been very few advancements, if any, in several decades.

Their opinion (and mine) is that conventional AI will soon begin to experience much slower growth along the same lines.

It's the quiet evolution of unknown types of "AI" we humans don't even recognize as such (anyone else read "Hyperion"?) until it's too late that scares me.
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Every emerging technology reaches a point of market saturation and a point of realization. Recall that in the early 2000s, the ".net" bubble burst once investors realized that most of the ".net" start-ups were not going to ever make a dime of profit, or even pay their bills. In spite of this, some companies which were part of the ".net" explosion (e.g. Amazon, Google/Alphabet, and Meta) did survive and became part of the daily fabric of our lives.

Currently there are several players trying to succeed in the AI market. Some of these really do have the goods, while others are just junk. AI is expensive, so AI offered for free is likely junk, or will only be good until the investor money runs out.

It seems that AI will become part of our daily lives, even if some of it is in the insidious form of spying on us, or shaping our future with false memories.

The analogy to the speed of flight is a good one, even though the principles are completely different.
 
bobfriesenhahn said:
Every emerging technology reaches a point of market saturation and a point of realization. Recall that in the early 2000s, the ".net" bubble burst once investors realized that most of the ".net" start-ups were not going to ever make a dime of profit, or even pay their bills. In spite of this, some companies which were part of the ".net" explosion (e.g. Amazon, Google/Alphabet, and Meta) did survive and became part of the daily fabric of our lives.

Currently there are several players trying to succeed in the AI market. Some of these really do have the goods, while others are just junk. AI is expensive, so AI offered for free is likely junk, or will only be good until the investor money runs out.

It seems that AI will become part of our daily lives, even if some of it is in the insidious form of spying on us, or shaping our future with false memories.

The analogy to the speed of flight is a good one, even though the principles are completely different.
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See, you go from "I didn't know butter was made from milk" to this. Did you use AI to get that answer?
 
bobfriesenhahn said:
AI is expensive, so AI offered for free is likely junk, or will only be good until the investor money runs out.
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So true... just the power requirements today are staggering. I've read there isn't enough electricity generated on the entire planet to sustain the type of "self aware" AI everyone is giddy about.
 
I know there's no turning back now and AI is here to stay and as much as I have found it to be entertaining and even useful at times... I have to say, a part of me is having a hard time with it.

Just read the following article and it really hits home being that all this is going on in our backyard.

www.theguardian.com

The AI boom is heralding a new gold rush in the American west

Once home to gold and prospectors, the Nevada desert is now the site of a new kind of expansion: tech datacenters
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
 
wayoflife said:
I know there's no turning back now and AI is here to stay and as much as I have found it to be entertaining and even useful at times... I have to say, a part of me is having a hard time with it.

Just read the following article and it really hits home being that all this is going on in our backyard.

www.theguardian.com

The AI boom is heralding a new gold rush in the American west

Once home to gold and prospectors, the Nevada desert is now the site of a new kind of expansion: tech datacenters
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
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Yep. Just like windmill farms taking over land.

I wonder if the data centers are really even needed or we're just being told that.
 
wayoflife said:
I know there's no turning back now and AI is here to stay and as much as I have found it to be entertaining and even useful at times... I have to say, a part of me is having a hard time with it.

Just read the following article and it really hits home being that all this is going on in our backyard.

www.theguardian.com

The AI boom is heralding a new gold rush in the American west

Once home to gold and prospectors, the Nevada desert is now the site of a new kind of expansion: tech datacenters
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
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how quickly they jumped off their virtue signaling "green" bandwagon.
The estimates for water usage are way below what will actually be used and can't wait to see how they plan to dispose of the environmental waste.
This should also be forced to produce double electrical needs so the rest can help lower the bills of the people that are about to be affected with a much higher bill
 
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