> Overall as a whole we are creating things, more than we are destroying. I don't see the need to take a negative stance.
Fair point: each one of us can think about the balance and understand if it's positive or negative. But an important exercise must be accomplished about this: totally removing AI from the complexity side.
Most of the results that neural networks gave us, given the hardware, could be recreated with a handful lines of code. It is evident every day that small teams can rewrite training / inference engines from scratch and so forth. So AI must be removed from the positive (if you believe it's positive, I do) output of the complexities of recent software.
So if you remove AI since it belongs to the other side, the "complicated software world" what gave us, exactly, in recent times?
If we discard the AI, which I don't think we should, but if we do - my life has been enriched a lot in terms of doing things I want to do vs things I don't want to. Very quick deliveries, I never have to go to a physical store, digital government online services, never having to wait in any queue, ability to search and find answers without having to go to libraries or know specific people. Online films, tv shows on demand, without ads. There are tons of those things that I feel have made my life so much easier.
The services that enable the things you desire also create harm (Amazon's problems are well documented, digital government services are often a divide that sometimes exclude freedom-minded indivuduals who don't use a "mainstream" OS, to name a couple).
AI has the potential to make the situation much worse, as many laypeople confer it an air of "authority" or "correctness" that it's not really owed. If we're not careful, we'll have an AI-driven Idiocracy, where people become so moronic that nobody can do anything about the system when it takes a harmful action.
Sure, there are trade offs and risks to everything and everything new. Cars made us move faster, but can pollute and cause injury or death. But summing all of those things together, I would not pick any other time before now to live. And same with software development.
I'm sure factory owners said the same thing in England in the early 1800s.
It needs to be noted that the average person's lot didn't improve until 150 years later. There's no reason why technology can't be decided by democratic means rather than shoved in our faces by people that just want to accumulate wealth and power.
I may have worded it poorly, but everyone can choose the content they consume. And activities they do. You can choose mindless things or things that allow you to learn about the World and understand. Both are easier.
I am not sure I understand you then. The post was saying we are destroying something, but I feel like we are constantly gaining and that things are getting better.
Fair point: each one of us can think about the balance and understand if it's positive or negative. But an important exercise must be accomplished about this: totally removing AI from the complexity side.
Most of the results that neural networks gave us, given the hardware, could be recreated with a handful lines of code. It is evident every day that small teams can rewrite training / inference engines from scratch and so forth. So AI must be removed from the positive (if you believe it's positive, I do) output of the complexities of recent software.
So if you remove AI since it belongs to the other side, the "complicated software world" what gave us, exactly, in recent times?