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Ok, I watched up until he started comparing the development of "AI", as he calls it, to the development of nuclear fission technology, and that's where I got fed up. Is generative AI as "impactful" as a nuclear weapon detonation over a city? This guy says no, but I don't know how you can possibly compare the two. LLMs are great at manipulating information, they aren't high-energy explosives. There's no common definition of "impactful" that meaningfully puts the two technologies on the same scale of comparison. They're just different.
And why does it matter, anyway? Is "nuclear weapons" the bar for when we should start caring about impactful technologies? I think not. Generative AI is an informational monster born of the internet and it is unique to it, and that is a huge problem given that the internet is quickly becoming the defacto medium of communication for groups over a certain size. We should be taking it seriously, full stop. I'm less interested in ranking it alongside other catastrophic technologies.
I think we haven't seen the full potential of generative AI yet, and I fear it may be quite destructive (more destructive) if we can't engineer our way around the dead internet that it was created to usher in. I think we should be trying to learn about it, how it works, how it may evolve, and how to have a usable internet alongside it.