• @kromem
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    11 year ago

    In part it feels that way because you, along with pretty much every other human being online today, have been propagandized for decades now with SciFi inspired from dystopian futurist predictions around AI which are almost universally clearly obsolete and misinformed by now, but still persist due to anchoring bias.

    AI trained to predict collective human thought ends up replicating quite a lot more than most people thought would be possible in our lifetimes.

    And yet when it exhibits emotional intelligence it’s called creepy, when it exhibits above average reasoning capabilities it’s called scary, and when it displays a potential for automating large swaths of busywork for most humans it’s called a threat.

    Next to no one I see discussing the topic is considering the opportunity costs here, as the media influence on perceiving AI as ‘other’ is so pervasive that most humans fall into treating it like a monkey from another forest competing for bananas rather than treating it like a much better stick.