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Yes, I understand that, I'm just saying that the average person is more affected by computers and the internet than by million dollar gene therapy treatments.
It's too early to tell the long term effect of AI but I think it's not good. It could be the most important technology of 2020-2070 in the same way that the nuclear bomb was perhaps the most important technology of 1945-1995. Even though it fortunately didn't get dropped on anyone else after 1945, it had a bad effect on everyone, the whole cold war revolved around it, etc.
That’s a fair point. If only she meant AI as a negative important thing, but unfortunately she is very clearly framing it as a positive important thing, which we know it most certainly isn’t
If you ask who the most important person of the 1940s was (in terms of having the biggest effect on the world, not about being good or bad), it's quite reasonable to answer "Hitler". Time Magazine declared Hitler to be "Man of the year" in 1938 for basically that reason, i.e. measuring impact rather than virtue. There was a lot of reader pushback though. Maybe they didn't use the wisest of criteria for that award.
Right now, AI chips are making a ton of profit for AMD, so Lisa Su's viewpoint is understandably biased.
It’s not so much that she’s wrong, but that she’s promoting it as a positive thing. I.e. purely a positive thing, without pointing out the massive scale of issues and destruction (I.e. environmental) that AI is gonna cause. It’s as if Oppenheimer tried to say ‘this marvellous invention will help us win the war’ without focussing on the massive loss of life: majorly important tech, but with dire implications.
The article is about AI specifically, not computers and the internet in general.
Lisa Su: AI is the #1 most important technology of the past 50 years.
You: no, medical advances are #1
Me: Hmm, I'd put the internet ahead of medical advances. It's too early to tell with AI. Lisa Su might end up being right, but in a bad way.
Seems like a reasonable course of discussion.
First off, the person who posted the article and commented is different than the first person who replied to your comment and I am a third user.
Second, the poster said advancements in medical technology is more important than AI. Medical technology includes all kinds of things like diagnostic tools, massive advancements in vaccines, the internet for sharing data, and all kinds of things that affect everyone. It was one example of something far more important than AI.
Oh ok I didn't follow the attributions. Still, it's hard to say Lisa Su is wrong, at least from a future perspective. Today, if AI (let's say post-2023 for the modern sense of AI) disappeared, we'd be rid of some AI slop but not all that much else would change. If we ask the same question in 2060, what answer do we get? IDK. If she said past 20 years instead of past 50, she'd probably be right. Amazon in 2006 was crushing local retail more or less the same way as now.
No I don't believe that sharing data by internet is a medical technology advance. MRNA vaccines are a real advance, but without them, we'd still have attenuated-virus vaccines like the Johnson & Johnson Covid vaccine. MRI was first developed in the 1970s, putting it in the 50 year window but not by much. Gene therapy is new but ultra specialized. There have been huge advances in cancer treatment, probably more important. I would say psychiatry and mental health understanding have gotten a lot better in the past 50 years and that's important, but it's hard to call that a technological advance per se.