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> Technology just gets better, as those airport bookstores get smaller. I’m wary of our artificial-intelligence future, and the notion that we will lean on bots
by hourago 3y ago
> Technology just gets better, as those airport bookstores get smaller. I’m wary of our artificial-intelligence future, and the notion that we will lean on bots to think for us, writing code, speeches and even poetry.
There is a big incentive for this future as it will be the high point of advertisement. Every AI search, every AI written book, every AI produced TV show will have the incentive to sell you something. Without other sources of information people critical thinking will be impossible, anything that the AI generated content says is true. We can avoid this future, but I do not see any of the big companies caring about it, if anything they are salivating on future profits.
Your brain will not be empty but full of whatever the highest bidder wants you to believe.
- chii 3y ago> Without other sources of information people critical thinking will be impossible so you're just describing propaganda and "grooming"/"conditioning". I think the threat is overblown, unless one single entity ends up controlling all information. I highly doubt this is possible in the west - there's too much competition. But i guess if it does happen where one entity obtains a monopoly on information production and distribution, then yes, this might happen.
- kzrdude 3y agoThere isn't too much competition, it's been a steady trend of companies merging into bigger and bigger entities.