Greg LindenJun 17
This quote from Demis Hassabis at Google DeepMind about traveling to the stars starting in 2030 is absolutely ridiculous, cult-like in its detachment from reality: "[With AGI] we should be in an era of radical abundance, a kind of golden era ... It should be an era of maximum human flourishing, where we travel to the stars and colonize the galaxy. I think that will begin to happen in 2030."
https://www.wired.com/story/google-deepminds-ceo-demis-hassabis-thinks-ai-will-make-humans-less-selfish/
Demis Hassabis Embraces the Future of Work in the Age of AI

The CEO of Google's DeepMind says systems as smart as humans are almost here—and that the job market will undergo "scary" changes.

WIRED
Show thread0×4a6f4672Jun 17
@glinden we will have an abundance of mass unemployment
https://www.axios.com/2025/05/28/ai-jobs-white-collar-unemployment-anthropic
Behind the Curtain: A white-collar bloodbath

Hardly anyone is paying attention.

Axios
Show threadGreg LindenJun 17
@jofr Neither of those are going to happen. There's a lot of hype in AI at the moment, trying to maintain FOMO among execs and investors. It's all hype given all the severe reliability and accuracy flaws with current products, flaws that can not and will not easily be fixed.
0×4a6f4672Jun 18
Show threadGreg Linden
@jofr AI expert Rodney Brooks has an excellent set of predictions on AI along with discussion of why some of this is so difficult that is well worth a read:
https://rodneybrooks.com/predictions-scorecard-2025-january-01/
Predictions Scorecard, 2025 January 01 – Rodney Brooks

Jun 17 at 10:56pmWeb