It's clear that AI is useful. It's not yet clear how useful. Hype has always obscured real value, and nobody knows the real value until the hype cycle completes.

What is clear, is that we have strapped a rocket to our asses, fueled with cash and speculation. The rocket is going so fast we don't know where we're going to land, or if we'll land softly, or in a very large crater. The past few decades have examples of craters. Where there are potential profits, there are people who don't mind crashing the economy to get them.

I don't understand why we're allowing this rocket to begin with. Why do we need to be moving this quickly and dangerously? Why do we need to spend trillions of dollars overnight? Why do we need to invest half the fucking stock market on this brand new technology as fast as we can? Why can't we develop it in a way that isn't insanely fast and dangerous? Or are we incapable of decisions not based on greed and FOMO?