> The psychopaths that are pushing it will be arguing over who gets to be president of the world in 2044.
I’m suddenly reminded of Metal Gear Solid 2’s plot …
In 2044, “the Patriots” AI will monitor the internet and the media, and “guide” humanity via manufactured consent with an unprecedented level of effectiveness.
Prompt engineering is such a weird thing. Isn’t interacting with AI using natural language one of its main selling point? You don’t have to learn an artificial query / programming language.
> If Google isn’t carefully they’re going to push people away from their golden goose.
Won’t be surprised if Google thinks their Golden Goose is terminally ill and AI is the replacement.
Google is really an information provider powered by ads. That’s what people use their search for - to get information.
Google’s search basically has the internet as its backend - information-wise. I think it’s inevitable that AI slop (output from low quality GenAI) will render it useless eventually.
So Google’s solution is to build their own AI with information curated by them to try to stay the front page of the internet.
> When that changes, it won't just be engineers losing work; there will be no reason to even have a human CEO any more.
The human race isn’t ready for that world IMHO. The only reason there is a middle class is because people have leverage in the form of their labor. When that becomes worthless … the people who own stuff and make their living from doing so won’t hesitate to get rid of everyone else - whom are now worthless to them.
> I don't think that follows. This is just LLMs being, for a lack of a better word, "gullible." How is it different from a person believing whatever they read on the Internet? People fall for spam and scams all the time, doesn't mean they are just glorified searches ;-)
To my knowledge, AI still can’t tell the difference between correct and incorrect. It can’t tell if something doesn’t make sense. That’s why to this day AI still makes mistakes on simple things.
> because that is how employers typically understand it and LM providers market it.
Every few months you get an article of some executive bragging that he fire an entire department of people because of AI.
It was adversarial from the start. The idle rich who don’t have to work for a living and their sycophants who somehow believe they won’t be replaced vs … everyone else.
I used to think that the common tale of AI rebelling in Hollywood movies was unlikely. Turns out we don’t even need rogue AI, our fellow men are quite willing to wipe the rest of us out.
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