At least for AI, I'm getting genuine value out of it. Is it overhyped? Sure! Do people attribute things to it that it can't do? Definitely. Are companies shoving AI into their product just to please investors? Sadles, yes. But also, I find LLMs genuinely useful at times.
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It's a godsend to autistic learning patterns which traditional methods work against.
(And made the science harder too by making reproducing experiments almost impossible)
I think the issue we have is abuse of tech by technocrats
Neither ignoring it or demonizing the technology outright is going to help us, the proverbial genie is out of the bottle and we can all see the amount of money flowing to it.
What we need to be discussing is guiderails and regulation
That said, there are hundreds of companies actively replacing human labor with cheap AIs. Call centers, support positions, communicators.
We need to act on that
They see it, philosophically, as "the next step" for capitalism, as a way to replace "human capital" with unpaid AI that doesn't want health benefits.
Plus, you can advocate for renewable energies!
I guess what I'm trying to say is the convo we should be having as a society is how best to socialize the benefits of AI and mitigate the human and ecological impacts, and hold technocrats accountable to that.
Much easier said than done, i admit
The problem we have is a social one, driven by greed, to devalue humans
There's no true substitute for actual, thoughtful accessibility features, same for actual people. AI should not be a replacement