The amount of people around me who take these soundbites at face value is quite depressing. I feel like I am going insane. I intensely dislike what the world is becoming, and I have now idea how to avoid the consequences.
It just looks like in a few years most people and organizations will be simple LLM lackeys just asking a chatbot what to do every hour of everyday then going to bed and repeating it.
I think this is the goal. No one involved actually believes in "AI". All they need is for ever more people and teams to just become dependent on whatever software nightmare they pull out of the mountain of GPUs they're hooking up.
At this point, it is not a bubble, it doesn't matter if there will be something valuable at the end or not. They're trying to become inescapable and it is working.
The problem with this etymology based political argument is twofold:
demos in Ancient Greek demokratia were blocks of assigned citizenship, so it is operationally closer to an electoral college than some idealistic "power to the people" interpretation of the term
who are the people? in Ancient Athens, "the people" ruling the demokratia were the male land owners... about 60% of the people in the city were excluded, most of them being slaves
Democracy now is a hugely complex ongoing negotiation, not some simplistic "dictionary says" naïvité. Go read Democracy in America, Aristotle is a bit outdated.
It just looks like in a few years most people and organizations will be simple LLM lackeys just asking a chatbot what to do every hour of everyday then going to bed and repeating it.
I think this is the goal. No one involved actually believes in "AI". All they need is for ever more people and teams to just become dependent on whatever software nightmare they pull out of the mountain of GPUs they're hooking up.
At this point, it is not a bubble, it doesn't matter if there will be something valuable at the end or not. They're trying to become inescapable and it is working.