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AI feels very different from previous waves of disruptive technologies (e.g., Web 2.0, mobile, cloud, social). More than ever, negative consequences are in plai
by hankman86 4y ago
AI feels very different from previous waves of disruptive technologies (e.g., Web 2.0, mobile, cloud, social). More than ever, negative consequences are in plain sight. AI proponents do not even deny that this is going to eliminate a lot of jobs. And it is going to produce an endless barrage of generic, soulless, manipulative content. Wouldn’t surprise me to see people retreating from online platforms as a result of that.
Where is the positive vision in all of this?
- sastraxi 4y agoPerhaps this is the answer to the question “how do we combat the epidemic of loneliness?” —- once the internet truly cannot be trusted, we’ll be forced to once again connect offline (where, at least for now, deepfakes are not possible).
- fortyseven 4y agoIt's a genie in a bottle situation. Short of an apocalypse that bombs mankind back to the stone age, we can't "unlearn" these new skills. Sure, you can try to legislate them away, but you'd be fooling yourself at that point. There was "then" and there's now: we have to learn how to adapt and hopefully end up with a net gain positive change by the end.