My thoughts on AI are mixed and complicated. I think AI can be a boon to humanity, capable of truly amazing things. But I think our implementation of it is flawed; it's become a buzzword for cash-grabs and quick investment, and the field is moving faster than it should. Most of the negatives, I'd argue, come from the infrastructure portion of it: datacenters, electricity usage, water usage, etc. It's gobbling up so much memory that a 96GB DDR5 kit of RAM I bought for $250 is selling for $1250 less than 9 months later. I believe the resources we have right now should go toward the sustainability problem first, renewable energy, responsible water usage, rather than toward making the models bigger and more powerful. We're scaling capability faster than we're scaling the infrastructure to support it responsibly.

The industry is the problem. Not the technology. I believe that in the future we can have a genuinely real General Artificial Intelligence. I choose to welcome that reality rather than be frightened of it. I think the movies are quick to villainize AI and rarely show a useful, friendly version of it, similar to the news cycles today: turn on the news and it's all bad, because good news doesn't sell.

Another aspect of AI that I do have a problem with is when people use it to supplant their own brains and thinking. They've started using it to get answers instead of spending 6 minutes to look it up and learn themselves. Don't get me wrong, I use AI constantly to help me with things. But I do it in a way that I feel helps me and doesn't turn my brain off. I have it teach me instead of doing my work for me. I use it as a tool to learn instead of as a tool that makes me a middleman for its answers.