I‘ve been always skeptical of AI and still am, but I‘ve seen enough now that I understand that it will eventually fundamentally change how we work, do business, and live our daily lives. We’ve all mostly been given a taste of how useful AI is, but does anyone else feel like it’s all too good to be true? Like the promises of AI will go unfulfilled, like it’s all going to come crashing down? War, energy crisis, catastrophic events, economic disaster. Any number of things could completely and utterly derail AI progress in its entirety. I feel like us humans often forget that we live on Mother Earth. A little unforgiving blue blob of rock and water circling around the sun floating in space. We often become enamored by our progress and forget how fragile everything is. The global economy, life itself. The fact life on earth and humanity has persisted for so long is a miracle in my eyes. One little thing could change everything, push things over the edge. One war, one catastrophe, one unforeseen event could very easily set us back to square one, or wipe us out entirely. Maybe we wake up one day where we worry about AI taking our jobs, to worrying about being able to manufacture even the most basic semiconductors, to then struggling to even put food on our table. This post may very well be out of scope of this sub, but I can’t help but feel deep down that this is all too good to be true. Maybe nothing crazy happens, but perhaps we get to the point where we can’t produce enough energy or chips and that causes things to slow way, way down. How sustainable is this really? We don’t really have a good model for how this will play out in the end. The promise of AI just seems too damn good to possibly be true. I know that I am not alone with this thought, right? submitted by /u/Significant-Safe-104
Originally posted by u/Significant-Safe-104 on r/ArtificialInteligence