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Bingo. And the fact the horde comes after anyone who points a critical eye as being anti-tech or too stupid to possibly understand the massive power of AI doesn

• haswell 3y ago
  As is so often the case where there are two “camps”, the public conversation degrades quickly because of binary extremes taken up by enthusiasts and naysayers. The reality is that there is truth in both. LLMs are revolutionary, and are already enabling things that didn’t seem possible a few years ago. I’ve experienced this personally as I use GPT4 as a research and troubleshooting assistant. But the fact that it seems so good on the surface (because sometimes it is) is what also makes it so dangerous. And the doomsday crowd rightly points out that this isn’t what many people think it is, and that people should not trust it in the way many people blindly have been. I think the public has been primed by a broader tendency towards polarization on social media to have exactly the wrong kind of conversation about AI tech as it emerges. The truth is some combination of all of the above. There are reasons to be excited. Reasons to be concerned. Transformational use cases. Dystopian use cases. What does worry me is that “the horde” seems like the default state of all public discourse at this point, which does add some credence to the doomer narrative. But the validity of that stance seems less about AI, and more about the current state of public social discourse.