Which is closest to your view?
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@ZachWeinersmith A2+C2. I eliminate A3 and C3 primarily because it is not a technology, nor is AI a coherent set of technologies, and it is as much a set of competing political enterprises as it is about technology
@ZachWeinersmith It depends on.
Generative AI? A2.
AI in general? B3 to C3.
@ZachWeinersmith A2. Leans slightly to C2 though, the usage of AI is bad because it's overhyped and is now taking jobs that should not be replaced, but it's debatable whether to attribute it entirely on the technology itself, which is immature (though it just makes AI "neutral" at most, not "good").
@ZachWeinersmith Somewhere between A1 and A2, because where it “works” and it’s useful it still needs to be babysat because of how often it’s wrong, and where it doesn’t need to be attended because of the allowed tolerances, it’s mostly used for fraud.
@ZachWeinersmith If you're in row A or B (and I am), aren't the columns just an irrelevant distraction?
@ZachWeinersmith A2 except for Anthropic and OpenAI which are A12
@ZachWeinersmith Like everyone assuming "AI" means "generative AI".
I thought of saying A2, but I'm going A1. It's closer to the truth.
What the AI companies are doing is a scam. They don't care what the tech is good for, only what they can make people think it's good for. They are pushing the tech to be used as an unscoped technology, "the everything machine", to be used as much as possible in all areas, both where it does good and where it does immense harm.
It looks like it's good at a few things (e.g. bug hunting) but that's incidental. Their effort goes into making generative AI appear to be good at things it is not.
@ZachWeinersmith A2. Especially insofar as AI actually has a meaning (to me and the rest of the olds) beyond just LLMs & their image and video analogues.
