I have a lot of these moments nowadays where I try to figure out if I am becoming the old fart, or if my skepticism is actually legitimate. It’s a difficult exercise, often futile, but it’s a good first step. It always felt like my parents never really asked themselves “why do we feel like technology X is bad”…they just had a knee jerk reaction to it and banned me from it.
Value is human attention and a new generation valuing different things, auto devalues the old. Thugs stay relevant, by being sifted from the sand and put in collages in the new.
What makes me think AI is the real deal is that it was pretty obvious (to me) that crypto and "the metaverse" were both dead ends. I certainly have doubts about AI and, like the post's author, I don't like a lot of things about it but I don't get that feeling of "this is useless bullshit".
Agreed here, it feels like everything is pointing toward a machine augmented future, and AI has proven its usefulness in a wide range of applications. Ultimately the direction that it goes is not up to any one person, but us as a species. Do I think we can make the right decisions? Not sure...but if we can't...thats just natural selection baby.
