I'm having this increasing suspicion that AI is becoming an end in itself. We appear to be remodeling our economy to accommodate it, instead of assimilating it efficiently in our economy.
We force it where it isn't needed, we pretend it can do more than it actually does. We do it out of fear of being perceived as obsolete, or out of pride in our "creation."
It's our hubris being projected onto a limited tool, while we claim to be just a few years away from Utopia.
I wonder if this is a sort of scenario T.S. Eliot could've had in mind when he wrote 'This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper.' Most people today assume the bang is a good thing (see the phrase 'going out with a bang') rather than the spectacular catastrophe which is ultimately disappointed by something arguably worse, bathetic decay.
Also, this reminded me of a line from the 2004 Battlestar Galactica series: 'We decided to play God, create life. And when that life turned against us, we took refuge in the fact that it was the machines which were flawed. But the truth is: we are the flawed creation.' Lastly, I definitely agree that the new English title is worse. (I think of astrophysics when I hear ‘singularity’).
I'm having this increasing suspicion that AI is becoming an end in itself. We appear to be remodeling our economy to accommodate it, instead of assimilating it efficiently in our economy.
We force it where it isn't needed, we pretend it can do more than it actually does. We do it out of fear of being perceived as obsolete, or out of pride in our "creation."
It's our hubris being projected onto a limited tool, while we claim to be just a few years away from Utopia.
I wonder if this is a sort of scenario T.S. Eliot could've had in mind when he wrote 'This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper.' Most people today assume the bang is a good thing (see the phrase 'going out with a bang') rather than the spectacular catastrophe which is ultimately disappointed by something arguably worse, bathetic decay.
Also, this reminded me of a line from the 2004 Battlestar Galactica series: 'We decided to play God, create life. And when that life turned against us, we took refuge in the fact that it was the machines which were flawed. But the truth is: we are the flawed creation.' Lastly, I definitely agree that the new English title is worse. (I think of astrophysics when I hear ‘singularity’).
"Do you want humanity to continue?"
"...... I mean.... well..."
"Yes or no"
".....Sure!"
Disturbing exchange, to say the least.