By using AI-powered search to summarize everything the AIs generated! I now understand the AI gold-rush.
Dear God, what a dystopian future we're creating. "Information super-highway" was a more-apt metaphor than I ever thought, way back when: as we all know by now, induced demand ends up in grid-lock.
Billions of dollars and rare minerals and manpower all going towards drowning the greatest communication tool in human history in noise. It's like kessler syndrome for the internet, except we are actively spending money to make it happen.
What a pointless, useless waste.
This is because they don't instinctively follow a principle of "market always knows best".
They might be live in a dictatorship instead of a fake democracy rigged by the rich, but materially, their lives will probably be better than ours in a few decades.
But why stop there? I dream of a future where not only do we fully automate the tedious process of playing golf, we also automate the tedious process of watching professional golf.
I don't know (or care) what you've posted before, or will post later... but right now, you and I are aligned.
It’s such an incredible waste of resources and time.
I’ve said it before but I have a picture I took a decade ago of this beautiful meadow I rode my bike past with the morning sun shining through the tall grasses. I remember the birds flying around and insects buzzing. That meadow was torn up and a big concrete data center surrounded by tall fences was put in. All so the tech bubble could go on.
It’s the one thing I’m confident LLMs will be purely helpful for. Though the ones being automated are from departments and tiers of companies that I expect to be resistant to downsizing as large parts of their workload are automated. Plus, if that were fully embraced, it’d be the same as other automation (or, sometimes, “automation”) in business and those responsibilities would still exist, but be done by people already juggling a dozen ex-roles. I don’t really want to be the one who has to babysit an LLM through writing department newsletters and crap.