The current state of LLMs is not the end of development. Right now, they’re sloppy and they consume a lot of resources to function, but future iterations will be better at it, will compute faster, and use fewer resources. Hopefully, we will have escaped the disease that is capitalism before we get there, and the gains in productivity can be shared alike with everyone, rather than a select few.
An industrial revolution expert on Wired pointed out the quality of products improved with power looms and assembly lines and the countless other inventions that rose with mass-produced steel. AI has had a few successes in science by making discoveries that humans hadn’t yet, but other than that, we’re seeing AI slop, vibecoding, etc. produces worse results than when human beings do it all by hand.
The horror of this moment is not that AI will someday out perform humans in complex and creative labor, and do it affordably. It’s that corporations and billionaires believe they can force that moment to the present if they throw enough money and resources at it. And they’re doing this specifically and brazenly with the intention of shutting out the majority of the human race as if this were an Ayn Rand fantasy.
And they’re blind to the consequences of trying, which can break the global economy (and the global ecology).
The current state of LLMs is not the end of development. Right now, they’re sloppy and they consume a lot of resources to function, but future iterations will be better at it, will compute faster, and use fewer resources. Hopefully, we will have escaped the disease that is capitalism before we get there, and the gains in productivity can be shared alike with everyone, rather than a select few.
An industrial revolution expert on Wired pointed out the quality of products improved with power looms and assembly lines and the countless other inventions that rose with mass-produced steel. AI has had a few successes in science by making discoveries that humans hadn’t yet, but other than that, we’re seeing AI slop, vibecoding, etc. produces worse results than when human beings do it all by hand.
The horror of this moment is not that AI will someday out perform humans in complex and creative labor, and do it affordably. It’s that corporations and billionaires believe they can force that moment to the present if they throw enough money and resources at it. And they’re doing this specifically and brazenly with the intention of shutting out the majority of the human race as if this were an Ayn Rand fantasy.
And they’re blind to the consequences of trying, which can break the global economy (and the global ecology).