Why AI Will Save the World | Andreessen Horowitz
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1353899
Article summarized by AI below: The article argues that artificial intelligence (AI) is not a threat to humanity, but a powerful tool to solve global challenges such as climate change, poverty, disease, and inequality. It gives examples of how AI is already being used to improve health care, education, agriculture, and energy efficiency. It also discusses the ethical and social implications of AI, and how we can ensure that it is aligned with human values and goals. The article concludes that AI will save the world if we use it wisely and responsibly.
Oh, good. If there's one type of entity I trust to lead humanity safely through some sort of existential risk, it's for sure a venture capital firm.
Not just this, it's AH. Not... terrible, but super hype-y from what I've seen.
The problem with AI is the problem with capitalism.
Hiper-capitalists like Andreessen Horowitz, who had been pushing cryptocurrencies for a long while and still seems to be doing so, have vested interests in generating the AI-hype.
Absolutely. AI is a tool, it is as good or harmful as what people use it for. Many firms are trying to use it to extract monetary value and devalue existing labour (i.e. hiring editors to proofread Ai-generated junk instead of hiring writers).
This:
and this:
is a rather funny juxtaposition of statements. Of course, an evil AI that was a threat to humanity would summarize the article that way!
AI itself is cool and amazing! My worries are not with AI itself but with who uses it and for what purpose.
They have the ability to solve a lot of the world's issues. The reason why we haven't solved them is because someone wants a cut while solving it, and many of these solutions are inconvenient to us.
The lightning fast development of open models like Stable Diffusion even compared to proprietary counterparts shows that everyone CAN benefit from it.