AI isn’t and won’t soon be evil or even smart, but it’s also irreversibly pervasive

Artificial intelligence — or rather, the variety based on large language models we’re currently enthralled with — is already in the autumn of its hype cycle, but unlike crypto, it won’t just disappear into the murky, undignified corners of the internet once its “trend” status fades. Instead, it’s settling into a place where its use is already commonplace, even for purposes for which it’s frankly ill-suited. Doomerism would have you believe that AI will get so smart it’ll enslave or sunset humanity, but the reality is that it’s much more threatening as an omnipresent layer of …
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