Sad to me that more and more money, time and resources are being poured into AI. Meanwhile, the real, non-artificial form seems more and more expendable.
What does it say about humanity in that we (or those in charge of allocating resources) are willing to invest billions in AI but not in education for naturally occurring intelligence?
Do we really want to live in a world where machines are more creative, intelligent and articulate? I thought machines were supposed to do the jobs no one wants to do, but that doesn’t really seem to be how this is all playing out.
I think the way things play out is: thoughtful people that want to do good worry about consequences, while others just grab any opportunity they can and run with it. In this context, any company that can replace one or two humans with an order-of-magnitude cheaper chatbot that's "on" all the time, will do that. The market is always looking for efficiencies and people just aren't that efficient.
We've lost the plot, the point of it all, in the blind pursuit of transhumanism. The current seismic shifts are merely the most noticeable reverberations of the long march of technics and the fall of religiosity.
This era is very reminiscent of early social media. While the majority was hoo-rah’ing it as this great thing, prescient technologists, including on HN, were warning how bad this was going to be.
Unfortunately AGI is orders of magnitude more impactful than Web 2.0 and social media.
> Unfortunately AGI is orders of magnitude more impactful than Web 2.0 and social media.
It's worth noting that this "impact" might appear as the production of conversation and discourse so unhelpful and unwanted it clogs the internet. I think comparison to the email spam explosion is probably the best available!
I don't know what kind of content will be most popular in 2025, but I know that the most popular content in 2026 will be written with a pen on a piece of paper.
What does it say about humanity in that we (or those in charge of allocating resources) are willing to invest billions in AI but not in education for naturally occurring intelligence?
Do we really want to live in a world where machines are more creative, intelligent and articulate? I thought machines were supposed to do the jobs no one wants to do, but that doesn’t really seem to be how this is all playing out.