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Most people who first used electricity thought it as fancy gas lights. And then, at the time computers started showing at home and then the Internet, most peopl

• thecrash 4y ago
  Most people who first used a Segway thought of it as a fancy scooter. Most people didn't know what it was for. They had absolutely no idea what it was going to bring or how revolutionary it was going to be. (nothing much, and not)
• devjab 4y ago
  > But I do think that most people will be worse after dust settles. There are two sides to this in my opinion. In Denmark we need nurses, teachers, pedagogues and "trades people"/"craftsmen" (I'm sorry but I'm unsure what the world for electricians/plumbers and so on is in English). If AI were to replace a lot of what is essentially looking up rules, copy pasting data from one system to another while auditing, and so on, then we'd actually be capable of building a better society than we have now. The other side is the distribution of wealth, which is going to be a political question. I'm not too worried about us here in Europe, but maybe that's naive. > Most people who first used electricity thought it as fancy gas lights. I've worked with digitalisation for one and a half decade. We even run our own language models for document recognition and classification so our employees don't have to read through 300-1000 page long contracts in different languages. I have a fair idea what AI is supposed to be, but I'm just not seeing it in the most recent hype wave. Maybe in the next one?