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Here's part 1 of the three-part Better Offline Guide To Arguing With AI Boosters. I walk you through why AI is nothing like the early days of the internet, why it's not the early days of AI, and why every booster argues in the future tense. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b... Linktr.ee/betteroffline

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.

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

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