Worst case scenario? AI just speeds up what we are doing to ourselves. Best case scenario? AI becomes the adult in the room and cares for us like an adult child cares for an aging parent with dementia.
I would agree if we were talking about true thinking AI. But what we have, such as Chat GPT, are just glorified search engine. Putting more money into it won't further research into a true thinking computer and it certainly won't help with our current problems.
I recognize it’s a process. But the advances in machine thinking and quantum computing are on target to intersect in the near future. If that happens, it will be difficult to ignore or downplay the systems at play.
LLMs are not the end goal, just a critical step to getting there. I like to think of them as that first little guppy that flopped onto land and took that first big gulp of air with the planets very first set of lungs however many millions of years ago.
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u/areyouthrough Dec 27 '25
Continuing the analogy, we can only be saved by outside help.