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Rick Battagline
@battagline.bsky.social

I think Ed is spot on about the over-hyping and over-spending on AI, but I think he is off on the "not early days" argument. 8 years out from an academic paper is nothing. A better comparison would be between the introduction of the Apple Newton (93) and the iPhone (07). Love your work Ed.

Ed Zitron
@edzitron.com

The argument is that the amount of capital, media and societal pressure has speed run this. I also bring up the iPhone and this is nothing like the iPhone! Anyway thank you for listening seriously

Rick Battagline
@battagline.bsky.social

The "speed run" will not happen. That is more likely to blow up the economy and set development back. I respectfully disagree about the Newton. It was an early attempt at a computational consumer device. I would argue current chat is a lot more like the Newton than the iPhone, in more ways than one

Ed Zitron
@edzitron.com

No, the speed run already is happening. I don't think that Chat is like the Newton at all, because that was an operating system AND hardware problem that was solved in a completely different way to how Newton handled things

Rick Battagline
@battagline.bsky.social

AI is a blanket term. It has seen a lot of success in some areas. It has failed to replace humans. It may never successfully do that, but this flavor of chatbot is fairly new (less than 3 years). I don't think we are 3-5 years from AGI (whatever that means), but what else has it "failed" to do?

Fred
@phelpsyau.bsky.social

Liking the show - just in case you weren’t aware (I’m sure you are) people from other countries than US, UK, and Canada listen - and also say Zed not Zee.

Unchained Malady 🎃👻⸆⸉
@unchained-malady.bsky.social

I just think it's wild that AI boosties are all like, "AI is like the internet" and in reality, it's a stolen bastardized fucked up facsimile of the internet, while also being the thing that's destroying it in the end, I hope AI is only known as the thing that brought about the Dead Internet