re: #115 Charles Johnson

At its current rate the AI boom is unsustainable. The natural resources it’s consuming are utterly outrageous, and the resulting “intelligence” is something that’s only useful in certain limited situations, and outright dangerous in many others. If it doesn’t have a ready answer to a question, it “hallucinates” one and pronounces it with seemingly the same authority as anything else.

By the time Apple’s partnership with ChatGPT actually produces something the boom may have already turned into an epic crash.

There are SO MANY ill-thought-through AI implementations about to hit the market, starting this fall. Last year, so many companies backed up the dump truck ‘o cash on the Magic AI Fairy, and this spring, there were many arched eyebrows in conference rooms, as CFOs and CEOs started asking “Where’s the R in the ROI on this turkey?”

I just quit a project for a city that I cannot name that is going to try to replace police dispatchers with AI chatbots to more efficiently direct cop cars to the scenes of accidents and home invasions.

Don’t want my fingerprints anywhere near that trainwreck-to-be.

Next year is going to see absolutely massive product-liability suits.