The underlying technology is still very cool, just the way it is shoved down everyones throats is not, and the way they suck up everything humans created.
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To paraphrase Cory Doctrow: evaluate new technologies based not only on what they can do, but also on who they do it for, and who they do it to.
It is very useful for a whole lot of things. But it is like a hammer. A single tool with some functions, but you're going to have a bad time if you think you can fix everything with a hammer. Also not worth burning the world for.
Skynet seems like a fair prediction.
just wait a year or two until you can fuck them
I remember 2001: A Space Odissey...
Hal, give me a recipe for cupcakes that doesn't involve any toxic chemicals.
I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that
AI is indeed fiction, at least today. But who knows what tomorrow holds?