>I'm not going to rebut everything but I want to point out that I think Geoffrey Hinton is way more in your camp in regards to faith in the technology (which is what we're discussing). I'm in the camp that thinks LLMs are at best a viable competitor to furby
Your point was on whether everybody wants to see AI take over. To that Geoffrey Hinton doesn't want AI to take over, while you do. I for one am not sure.
As for whether Geoffrey Hinton thinks AI is legit or not is a different story. On that topic he's on my side, but that was besides the point I brought him up to point out that your take on "everybody" wanting AI to develop further is incorrect.
> and the doom and existentialism is a marketing ploy to a world imbued in conspiracy theory and institutional distrust in order to compensate for a wildly over promised and under delivered product.
Other way around. With all the money and business interests going into LLMs business interests are promoting LLMs in a future that you want and that is not apocalyptic. The conspiracy theories aren't a thing. It makes no sense as those theories don't align with where the money is being thrown.
>But hey, when you gotta raise money, you gotta raise money, and as you put it, the "trend line is going up" and that's all that matters.
Bro. I am not saying "trendline" as if it's something I have to keep throwing money at to support.
I am talking about a mathematical projection based on data. The pace of technology in the past when graphed points to an ever increasing line on a line graph. When you take the slope of that line and use it to do a quantitative prediction, that line just points up. That's just a fact of reality. The logical outcome of the data we see.