I genuinely don’t get it. Its a fucking trash chatbot that’s doing perceivably nothing beyond taking jobs away from people?
Like am I an insane outlier here when it comes to AI and robotics? I cant imagine having a fucking robot in my home, let alone one run by an AI. Nor can I understand why the fuck people want their cars to have it in them with the ability to monitor their biometrics.
Maybe I’m just the outlier here, but I genuinely have no interest in the slop machines or their potential clanker bodies and see no use in them.
One example where it may be truly revolutionary is astrophysics research. I saw a lecture by an astronomer talking about it. Astrophysics works well with the limitations of AI. A lot of their work is building simplified models to study large complex astrophysical systems. Imagine someone modeling the formation of planets in a circumstellar disk.
The key is that these are very contained problems. You’re just trying to simulate a little toy solar system. The code can all be completely self-contained and doesn’t need to deeply integrate with tons of other existing software and infrastructure.
Articles come out all the time that mention AI being able to detect different diseases months or years before symptoms present. It can be trained to sift through lifetimes worth of data and recognize patterns. There’s no way that’s not useful.
The wider social, economic, and environmental impacts are definitely issues that should be looked into but the tech itself is a marvel. The AI hate, I think, mostly comes down to chatbots and the companies pushing them.