Tech bros love to argue that llms are the future just like the internet or electricity. Of course many of them love Ayn Rand and live in a fictional stupid bubble world but anyways; are they right? I guarantee there were studies showing we are dumber for using the internet, or GPS, or that cars are much worse than horses etc. That can be seen through history.
When it comes down to it, everything is a tool. But I feel ai will mostly be used for evil, where the internet is probably 50/50 evil and good.
An invention is not judged on its naysayers. People dont think AI is bad because it has a lot of non believers. No invention is like the previous and every one has to be judged as its own thing. like electricity and many inventions of the past their usefulness is obvious in demos but with AI there are very few convincing usecases. Programming, art and video are the only one I’ve seen that are “good” and its still pretty shit when you actually sit down and use it and think about what you are actually doing.
Thats not enough to change the world these have been very accessibile for the past 20 years making it slightly easier is not comparable to electricity.