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“Ai” as it is being marketed is less about new technical developments being utilized and more about a fait accompli.
They want mass adoption of the automated plagiarism machine learning programs by users and companies, hoping that by the time the people being plagiarized notice, it’s too late to rip it all out.
That and otherwise devalue and anonymize work done by people to reduce the bargaining power of workers.
A.I. exists. It will continue to get better. If letting people use it becomes illegal, they'll just use it themselves and cut us out. A world where the general population have access to A.I. is the only one where we're not totally fucked. I'm not simping for Google or Facebook, I'd much prefer an open source self hostable version. The only way we can stay competitive is if these companies continue to develop these in the open for the consumer market.
General purpose artificial intelligence will exist. Full stop. Intelligence is the most valuable resource in the universe. You're not going to stop it from existing, you're just going to stop them from sharing it with you.
What they have, is miles from artificial general intelligence, it is not AI in even a limited sense. It is AI in the same way a mob in a video game is AI.
Their claims to be approaching it are marketing fluff at best, and abject lies at worst.
I think if we sit here and debate the nuances of what is or is not intelligence, we will look back on this conversation and laugh at how pedantic it was. Movies have taught us that A.I. is hyper-intelligent, conscious, has it's own objectives, is self aware, etc.. But corporations don't care about that. In fact, to a corporation, I'm sure the most annoying thing about intelligence right now is that it comes packaged with its own free will.
People laugh at what is being called A.I. because it's confidently wrong and "just complicated auto-complete". But ask your coworkers some questions. I bet it won't be long before they're confidently wrong about something and when they're right, it'll probably be them parroting something they learned. Most people's jobs are things like: organize these items on those shelves, mix these ingredients and put it in a cup, get all these numbers from this website and put them in a spreadsheet, write a press release summarizing these sources.
Corporations already have the A.I. they need. You gatekeeping intelligence is just your ego protecting you from the truth: you, or someone dear to you, are already replaceable.
I think we both know that A.I. is possible, I'm saying it's inevitable, and likely already at version 1. I'm sure any version of it would require access to training data. So the ruling here would translate. The only chance the general population has of keeping up with corporations in the ability to generate economic value, is to keep the production of A.I. in the public space.