Linked – Not All Revolutionary or Garbage: A Moderate Take on AI

It’s nice to see that I’m not the only one who feels like this about AI:

The extreme views on AI claim it’s either revolutionary or garbage. I have a moderate take on AI: It’s useful but doesn’t change everything.

https://christytuckerlearning.com/not-all-revolutionary-or-garbage-a-moderate-take-on-ai/

I don’t think Christy or I will get the attention the zealots or the haters will get. The internet has proven time and again that it loves extremism.

But the more I read about both sides of the AI debate, the more I think it will fall somewhere in the middle, which should terrify us. If Christy describes where we end up with AI, some companies will lose money.

I think AI will become embedded in most knowledge work that is done now. It’ll schedule a meeting for us. It’ll research a topic and come up with an outline or first draft, it will create basic images and video, it will analyze data much faster than any human could, it’ll update information faster than any human could, and it’ll provide insight into our activities and work that prove to have tremendous value. Eventually, we will stop realizing that it’s even there. It’ll just happen behind the scenes, driving us to better-informed work and strategy.

That’s nice, but it will never be worth the money being spent on it, and when the market realizes that, the economic fallout might be disastrous. The mass layoffs will make the last few years look pretty calm.

Generative AI is already creating positive change and will continue to do so. It is also making very negative changes as well, with deepfake porn, fake video and audio, scams and disinformation proliferation, etc.

I believe it will change our world, but not in the way AI founders think it will or promise that it will. It will also hurt a lot of people along the way. History will have to decide if it was worth it.

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