> but I know for sure that I wouldn't have come close to the amount of progress I've made on projects that I have been pushing off for years.
Of course, at its inception, AI will mainly be seen as something that can help improve efficiency. Same with the smartphone: it was an entire optional tool that was mainly beneficial. But after this initial inception, technology tends to grow, and now smartphones for example are often mandatory due to 2FA, or at least difficult to avoid. And they constantly find new ways to bother people.
So for now, AI can be helpful for some, but it will grow, become more entrenched and insidious, and in lots of cases entirely replace people or at least be annoying and difficult to get rid of.
It doesn't make sense to argue for AI by stating its benefits in its nascent stages. Babies are all basically innocent creatures that bring emotional benefits but some can grow up to be killers, and this is what will happen with AI.
Well I kinda do agree with that, it feels like using not getting the hang of AI will leave you behind because AI in 10 years will be so much better - to a point we can't even estimate right now. But I think AI will make life a lot better and will actually help solve inequality since providing quality development during early years and help support children after the first few years of becoming independent (I still consider people children until around 21 to 25 years old).
AI will help close the gap between the people who were privilidged and given the environment to learn versus those who didn't.
However, beyond that I have absolutely no idea what will happen because I had a friend sending me porn that grok generated (the moderation is a joke). AI girlfriends will definitely be a thing and a lot of people will use those services, but I can't really wrap my head around what that entails for the future.
Of course, at its inception, AI will mainly be seen as something that can help improve efficiency. Same with the smartphone: it was an entire optional tool that was mainly beneficial. But after this initial inception, technology tends to grow, and now smartphones for example are often mandatory due to 2FA, or at least difficult to avoid. And they constantly find new ways to bother people.
So for now, AI can be helpful for some, but it will grow, become more entrenched and insidious, and in lots of cases entirely replace people or at least be annoying and difficult to get rid of.
It doesn't make sense to argue for AI by stating its benefits in its nascent stages. Babies are all basically innocent creatures that bring emotional benefits but some can grow up to be killers, and this is what will happen with AI.