> My input stream is full of it: Fear and loathing and cheerleading and prognosticating on what generative AI means and whether it’s Good or Bad and what we sho

> My input stream is full of it: Fear and loathing and cheerleading and prognosticating on what generative AI means and whether it’s Good or Bad and what we should be doing. All the channels: Blogs and peer-reviewed papers and social-media posts and business-news stories. So there’s lots of AI angst out there, but this is mine. I think the following is a bit unique because it focuses on cost, working backward from there. As for the genAI tech itself, I guess I’m a moderate; there is a there there, it’s not all slop. Let’s see. > But, while I have a lot of sympathy for the contras and am sickened by some of the promoters, at the moment I’m mostly in tune with Thomas Ptacek’s My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts. It’s long and (fortunately) well-written and I (mostly) find it hard to disagree with. So the Moderate is a Believer. But it’s offset by being concerned about The Climate and The Education and The Investments. You can try to write a self-aware/moment-aware intro. It’s the same fodder for the front page.