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When I say ‘tech’, I’m not just using it as a synonym for technology — I’m talking about the last fifty years or so of consumer, largely opt-in, technology like
by xanderlewis 2y ago
When I say ‘tech’, I’m not just using it as a synonym for technology — I’m talking about the last fifty years or so of consumer, largely opt-in, technology like entertainment devices and social networks.
> So which one is it? In the first half you're implying AI doesn't create value and that nobody actually wants it, but then in the second half you're saying it could be the "technology to end all technologies", which has obvious value.
Yeah. I thought this could be confusing. What I mean is not that such technology is likely to appear any time soon; rather that it’s thought to be likely. It would certainly create value if it came along, but it’d also be the end of the world as we know it.