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.

I keep mentioning the Dot Com Boom/Bust, but history’s replete with cases of the next “big technology” sputtering out. Once upon a time, everything was going to be atomic-powered and we’d never need fossil fuels again. Or robots were going to replace all the workers and we’d lead lives of luxury free from drudgery of physical labor. Bioengineering was going to solve all the world’s problems in our lifetimes and eventually lead to immortality. And so many other industries that boomed and busted in our lifetimes.