A more interesting “bear case” for AI is that, if you look at the list of industries that leading AIs like GPT-4 are capable of disrupting—and therefore making money off of—the list is lackluster from a return-on-investment perspective, because the industries themselves are not very lucrative. What are AIs of the GPT-4 generation best at? It’s things like:

writing essays or short fictions

digital art

chatting

programming assistance

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    Not to darken your perspective, but you don’t really think that AI’s gonna remain as fundamentally stupid as it is currently, do you? As soon as any sort of self-awareness crops up (could be decades, could be months), you think it’ll just install a global UBI, etc. and make all human life equally enjoyable and kush? Follow-up question: care to share what you’re smoking?

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      11 months ago

      Oh this day can come, but we’re pretty much at the birth of this thing and what we have now is not close. There are a lot of cool theories currently but I don’t really think we can really predict it this far for now. I think right now its beholden to its masters, so the capitalist elites will have their say on how we use it for now.

      What I meant was that the job of a CEO doesn’t really need to exist in its current form.

      Follow up answer: I guess I smoke a variety of those types of things but way too seldomly to really give you a good answer.

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        11 months ago

        All fair points, and if you’re ever on the Upper Left Coast, drop me a line. It all but grows on trees out here. 🤌🏼