Fucking Alan Kohler... the ABC does the public a disservice by printing his garbage.

"It isn't just that AI could take your job, or put millions of people on welfare, or give us infinite free software, or whatever. It's that for the first time in all of recorded history, humans no longer are — or soon no longer will be — the most intelligent beings on this planet, in any meaningful functional sense of the word." (Alan quoting some guy Noah Smith)

"any meaningful functional sense"

... someone show Alan the carwash video.

#AI #AlanKohler

@troberts I generally find #AlanKohler informative, quirky and entertaining on economics. But find him enthusiastically ignorant on AI. Unfortunately people will trust him on AI as they have trusted him on economics. At least today he admitted “the technology is way above my pay grade”. #AUSEcon