Something that strikes me as really weird about the AI age that we're in is we all know we've entered it, but no one was aware when we entered it.
It was like a time jump.
Two years ago we were mocking AI videos for their crappiness, speculating that AI may or may not be all they're saying it's cracked up to be.
And now, we're in solid "AI is terrifying and I can't imagine the dystopia someone born today is going to grow up in regarding the all encompassing nature of AI"
And it's like having a black out when drunk. One minute you're in a bar. The next minute you're behind bars for public intoxication and you didn't remember anything in between.
That's how it feels with the AI thing.
Of course we always had trepidations from early on, but unlike certain ages, the age of woke, the age of covidians, the age of seeing the extent of the brainwashing, there were solid markers of "we were there, and now we're here and here's what led to that."
But with AI, I don't know if it's similar to you, but it was like a realtime mandella effect where suddenly we're in the AI age and it felt just like yesterday we were mocking the "Will Smith eats spaghetti" and there doesn't seem to be a clear moment where everyone took AI for the serious existential threat that it is....it just happened, like a black out from drinking. It's a very strange feeling.
For me it was not that slow. Companies have been working it for a long time, I remember almost a decade ago IBM using Watson to do medical diagnosis in India because India sucks and the shit IBM AI was much better at diagnosis than Indian doctors but somehow we also need to import jeet doctors because reasons.
AI changed things fast once it hit the public market but it's not something that we did not expect. Even before OpenAI there were attempts of replacing support with AI.
As for consequences this is my opinion.
Skill crisis will be another problem as everyone is dependent on AI already, especially the Indians that are replacing us. If any crisis happens that AI can't solve we're going to be f**d.
And education. One of my wife's cousin is a teacher and kids are mass using AI, even cheating on tests by taking a quick photo and having ai solve it. Like education was not bad enough already.
Ai is an amazing technology but man will it f**k us big time.
I think that there's lots of things that probably/definitely won't be solved with AI, enough said. There's going to be tons of kids who won't be able to function without tech or innovate once the people who made the systems in the first plce are dead.
People act like AI/robotics will render the human race obsolete when these gassed-up algos can't even return a shopping cart. Not buying it.