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This might get down voted but let me share a nuanced take.
AI is either overhyped or underhyped.
Yes, right now LLMs won't change the world, don't make great lawyers, don't replace software devs and don't write all of your emails. But if you used some of the more recent ones, they can definitely help you express or help to write quicker, and they can give you a bird's eye view of a topic.
And let's also make clear that AIs are not useless nor is their potential exhausted. Right now they are useful helpers in specific scenarios and they only get more useful from here.
There are important questions around: what constitutes a personality, a right to an image, or when does imitation become stealing, and how do you even consider an AI model on questions of copyright.
I think the problem is that people have promised too much from this technology and that's why everyone just associates it with bad results. But there's more to it, and nuance gets lost in the stream of strong opinions.
I like the comparison.
The implantation is different, the effects will be different, and how we evolve with it will be different, but AI does already have a solid impact and it will continue to have one.
And the industrialization was neither good nor bad. How some people fucked over poor people's lifes in the process is despicable, but just because things get faster or more efficient is not inherently a bad thing.
Now we definitely need rules here. Some shit people and companies do with AIs is wild and should be illegal, but as always law takes time. Maybe it's an illusion but I hope for a healthy integration of AI in small ways into our life. And I really mean small. Give me chatgpt and AI spell checking, and maybe some code auto completion. Don't put all those AI assistants into everything because that's not the way to go. Change done right moves slow, and if we only had the things we know how to use, we'd be a lot better off rn.
Just as automated assembly lines at some point led to electronic devices being more accessible, I hope the LLMs and other AIs we use will become well placed and non-intrusive.