While reading this I did have a thought, that yeah we carry almost all the information in the world in our pockets, and we are far more alienated from each othe

While reading this I did have a thought, that yeah we carry almost all the information in the world in our pockets, and we are far more alienated from each other than we were before that happened. AI will have a big hurdle to overcome. If it's not reliable, meaning we have to verify or check its work, as is the case currently and may be for a long time, then how much better is it than Google and the world of information already in our pockets? Can it move past being simply an accelerant of our already highly productive work lives? I'm not a skeptic. I see measurable productivity gains amongst devs when using CoPilot and other AI completion tools. And likewise the realized reduction in support staff by AI chatbots (yes it comes with a quality drop, but that's frankly fine for a lot of businesses) is there. AI art will probably affect the already heavily squeezed computer graphics industry the most. Most other forms of decorative art and muzak were already cheap enough that AI isn't going to flip flop things on its head there no matter how good it gets. But industries where mistakes have to be avoided, where verifiability is paramount, where there is already an assumption that your knowledge workers can look up and learn anything they need to get the job done, how much will AI revolutionize those industries vs just slightly bumping up productivity? That's a tough question to answer, frankly