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It feels kind of crazy to go from "AI is 'only' something like snake oil" to "AI is 'only' something like fire, metallurgy, agriculture, writing, or electricity
by dwohnitmok 1y ago
It feels kind of crazy to go from "AI is 'only' something like snake oil" to "AI is 'only' something like fire, metallurgy, agriculture, writing, or electricity" without some kind of mea culpa of what was wrong about their previous view. That's a huge leap to more or less imply "well AI is just going to be comparable to invention of fire. No biggie. Completely compatible with AI as snake oil."
- uoaei 1y agoI think the point is more to posit that our civilization will come to normalize AI as a ubiquitous tool extremely quickly like the other ones mentioned, and to analyze it from that perspective. The breathless extremist takes on both sides are a bit tiresome.
- tuatoru 1y agoThe AI hype was 1000% GDP growth per annum. That was crazy. The "snake oil" label was in reaction to that. Anyway, you are shooting the messenger by downvoting me. Thanks for showing us all how intelligent you are.
- dwohnitmok 1y agoEh. Downvote wasn't me. But I'd be curious if you could find a quote from anyone for 1000% GDP growth per annum.