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You wouldn't have known about a TV had you not seen it. That is what I mean by, people generally can't conceptualize what they want or need until they see it.

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Wants and needs are not the same. We are experiencing the difference in real time. AI does not give society a want or need.

My point was not about the difference, it was about the fact that average people cannot conceptualize new ideas until one person or team invents it, then the average person will want or need it.

As for AI, I and many others want it, and some even need it, in certain use cases. Speak for yourself.

I believe the idea that you (or I) might know better than the 'average people' to be incredibly conceited, arrogant, and frankly wrong. It is an attitude that gives you superiority for having achieved nothing.

I'm not sure what you're even talking about, you're putting words and an argument into my mouth which I never said.

Well then I owe you an apology. Perhaps I inferred too much about your point of view and understood too little, which is my own loss. Sorry.

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