This is going to sound crass but idc - OAI is just full of geeks, when what is needed is people who are more akin to hippies - thats pretty much what Apple was in the early days.
Its no use building technology when its not married with the humanities and liberal arts.
IMO you're making a valid point, because there seems to be a disconnect between AI and tangible human benefits. The ChatGPT-as-therapy train has been nerfed after the bad publicity, and it is force-fed to people at their workplaces through copilot.
I assume if you ask normal people how AI affects their lifes they'd think about annoying callcenter menus, deep fake porn and propaganda videos, and getting homework done. Not sure if any of this is a positive experience for the mind.
It's 2025 and most speech controls for car navigation don't work, Siri is a pile of sh*t and millionaires are trying to convince us that we should either use their AI or a google which has significantly reduced the quality of their search result pages.
It's like a false choice dilemma which allows back-to-the-roots companies such as Kagi to emerge, and I'm happy about it.
My comment, to my surprise, has received a lot of up-votes lol.
Completely agree. The way I think about life is - how will people look back 50 years from now, and make remarks about what is happening?