We're in World War III. At least it's not a nuclear conflict...yet.
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Nick Farr
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"Hey Daddy, is that an AI tree?"
"Uh, it's a cell phone tower that's designed to blend in with the trees, but I think it's been there a while...probably before generative models were involved in designing things like that."
"But it's not a REAL tree. It's AI."
"What does AI mean to you?"
"It means it's not real, like, not the real thing. It just looks real but it's not really real."
"You mean fake?"
"What does fake mean?"
OH: "Loss is the glue and the lubricant of emotional attachments. Problem is, you don't know which until it's too late."
OH: "Your boss being able to afford a Jet Ski his failson can crash and abandon at the lake house is more important to him that you being able to make enough to afford rent."
And there's one problem with GenAI: Like automatic transmissions, you gain a little convenience in exchange for losing driving skills and a connection with the vehicle.
Only, in the case of GenAI, you're losing language and cognitive ability.
Automatic transmissions and their increasing complexity make you more reliant on the automotive manufacturer. GenAI makes you more reliant on huge corporations.
Automatic transmissions were (until very recently) much less fuel efficient.
It took a long time and a lot of real-world testing for automatic transmissions to become as reliable as manual transmissions.
Sure, clutches would break a lot. But they were relatively easy and not terribly costly to fix.
When an automatic transmission breaks, it often doesn't make sense to continue driving the vehicle.
The kindest thing I can say about Generative AI is that it's like automatic transmission.
The problem is that it's being hyped as a technology that provides fully self-driving cars.
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