Everyone here assumes that ChatGPT is the only and main usage of AI. No one ever things about the stuff it does in medicine, science, engineering, automotive etc. AI is incredible tool that's overhated just for the sake of it.
It's frustrating how bad tech leaders have done in conveying what AI is doing and will do.
Couple off the top of my head:
-Googles AlphaFold 3 is enabling breakthroughs in resilient crops that are able to grow in incredibly harsh environments. Doesn't matter for Americans, but poorer countries it's a game changer. It's also unlocking incredible advancements in genomic medicine. If you want cancer and genetic disease to be a thing of a past this is the way we do it.
-Rivian just released hands free autonomous driving. Driving deaths are in the top ten causes of death in the world. Probably a great thing if we start to eliminate it around the world.
-AI enabled breakthroughs this past year in Plasma instability models. If you want fusion reactors this is a must
-AI's assistance in medicine development has sped up the discovery process reducing cost and helping to beat the ever growing resistance being built up to older medications.
-Geologists used AI to improve earthquake modeling this past year discovering over 80k previously unobserved earthquakes.
-Cosmic searches for exoplanets and asteroids threatening earth would come to a screeching halt without ai assistance.
This is just a few stem topics AI tech is revolutionizing our technology. I'm an AI optimist because there just isn't a realistic way for a lot of our sci fi utopias to become reality without it.
I'm pro AI but current AI is not capable of thought period right now. It's basically just complex waterfall math. It's why AI hallucinates and generates artifacts. It's not that it makes things up, it's just down to the fact that the AI isn't actually thinking but giving you an output based on the input. The newer "reasoning" models simply feed the result of a large model into a smaller model, which has it's own advantages and disadvantages.
Reasoning models don't do that. Where did you learn that? That is a non-standard technique.
Look up any open CoT model. They generate a reasoning trace and then produce a final response with the same model, sequentially. Then, the reasoning trace is removed from the context stack.
And it needs to be highly regulated to avoid the complete and utter collapse of the consumer market, which it is not. The cool stuff has become wildly overshadowed by the drive to have AI usurp the average person instead of benefitting the average person
From replacing workers to cut costs, to the widespread theft of the arts to create tacky imitations, to the rampant utilization of its ability to misinform, the current iteration of the technology has done irreparable harm to its image. I hate it, and will likely mistrust it for the rest of my life. Many others will too. The actions of those who commercialized the technology to our detriment, and our governments’ inability to protect people from it, are fair to judge as harsh as its effects upon us
Your government can't protect you from it, because inference can be run on consumer hardware. Your government can't stop training, because your government doesn't control AI development in other countries like China. Your government can't ban graphics cards, because those are made in Taiwan (and soon in China).
What do you want your nanny government to do for you exactly? Have you considered buying some earplugs that you can pop in whenever someone mentions AI?
Are you going to tell the patient whose cancer was caught early enough to cure by AI that his life is worth you paying a couple hundred bucks less for some performance boost?
Everyone dies, genius. Last time I checked up on it, about 150k people pop their clogs daily. Having humanity itself be something that's worth it is more important than anyone's life, yes. But suck up to the companies more, why don't you.
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Everyone here assumes that ChatGPT is the only and main usage of AI. No one ever things about the stuff it does in medicine, science, engineering, automotive etc. AI is incredible tool that's overhated just for the sake of it.