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could you explain how you make the connection?
do you think AI is worthless?
But, to me it reminds me of when the internet took off in the mid to late 90s - people (usually older than me) would decry it as 'the latest fad' and play down the affect that this would have on our everyday life. Before hilariously comparing the internet to 'space invaders' or a 'yo-yo' or something weird that at least gave insight into the fact that they really didn't know what it was they were talking about.
People comparing AI/AGI to NFT's or crypto, are IMHO, as weirdly off-base as those who compared 'the internet' to yo-yo's were back in the day.
FTX collapses (November 2-11, 2022), crypto hustle-scam is over, the decision is made to release whatever there is at the moment at OpenAI to start the next cycle, a few weeks later (November 30, 2022) there we go. Same thing as always: some investors -- mostly white males -- get filthy rich meanwhile some others get exploited -- this time it's Kenyan workers -- and many, many people get hoodwinked and then lose their shirt. Same story, different hype.
https://youtu.be/I6IQ_FOCE6I did everyone forget? I guess. At we got something out of web2.0 ... but we also got a genocide and a few warped elections / referendums out of it so the jury is still out how history will see it. Crypto was a net negative for humankind in every possible way (except a few people walked away with tons of money of course but at what cost) and now we are facing down this terrible wave of AI. Yay?
https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2018/04/05/debunking-bu...
> Ordinary person: “Your weird Internet money sucks to use. It’s slow and expensive. I lost my coins by mistake and it can’t be fixed. If I get hacked it can’t be fixed either.”
> Bitcoin advocate: “But everyone wants [list of ideological aims held only by weird people]! Everyone I know, anyway.”
Crypto often had to invent new pyramid schemes from whole cloth, so it was easier for people to see the grift for what it was. Whereas AI is slotting into the long-established pyramid scheme of bullshit jobs, and just pushing out a growing number of human operators. It's harder for us to perceive the ultimate pointlessness of much of AI's current application because we have a vested interest in believing our own role as humans amounts to something more than it actually does.