AI-vey!
Can we get excited about something else now?
Sooner or later, it’s going to occur to us that AI is a thing of the past.
It consumes vast amounts of precious energy, makes promises that are only ever for future delivery, and in its final form — AGI — doesn’t exist.
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“You campaign in poetry, you govern in prose,” said Mario Cuomo.
AI is perpetually campaigning: its “poetry” is the poetry of the latest shiny gadget; of the seductive sci-fi dystopia; of the muscular voice in the ad promising that AI will transform your life and/or your business.
AI’s idea of “prose” — of how to govern our lives — is the parking app.
It’s the call-centre (staffed by smartphone-owners) that can’t take your call in under half an hour. It’s the ad that interrupts the music on YouTube and it’s the bright red line crossing out the originality in your writing.
AI doesn’t carry spare change for the homeless.
Just saying.
