That’s always been the issue for me. It’s not the technology itself, it’s that virtually the entire initiative is being pushed by venture capital with a “we want to make more money than God” mission that means they call every person calling for caution a Luddite/anti-progress. That’s basically how every thing on the Internet has expanded over the last 20 years and the results have been, if I’m being insanely generous, mixed at best.
I also think that being a little more cautious would have yielded many, if not most of the benefits we've received while avoiding many of the downfalls. Most of these companies knew their products were negatively affecting their users-- e.g. instagram and teen girl self esteem-- but actively suppressed it because it would inhibit making dump trucks full of money off of it. People who stand to make that money will ALWAYS say you're going to ruin everything if you do anything at all to impede progress-- that's ridiculous. The people that use their turn signal and drive within 10mph of the speed limit still reach their destination, and with dramatically less risk than the people that drive pedal-to-the-metal, tailgating, with that self-absorbed fuck-everybody-else attitude.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEIrQUXm_hY
The number of times I’ve been in an argument with colleagues and said “it’s all tools, use the tool for the job” to close out my point can’t be over overstated lol. So many film vs digital arguments in particular.
Preach. This is exactly what I’m driving at.
I think it's more "We want to use money to become gods", and AI is very much part of that.
They're going to be rather surprised when this doesn't work as planned, for reasons that are both very obvious and not obvious at all. (Yet.)