It’s hard to take you seriously my friend. To begin with, I don’t think you’ve explored the topic of AI very deeply. For sure the industry and the technology is out over its skis right now, but there is no putting that genie back in the bottle. Your ‘solution’ is naive in the extreme. AI will change society whether we want to ignore it or not. Do you suppose that we could have ignored or reversed the agricultural revolution, or the industrial revolution?
Our effort is better spent growing with it, understanding it, and merging it into our society in a way that respects our values and our goals.
You’re making a lot of assumptions that have yet to be backed up with evidence. There have been a lot of inventions that people claimed were revolutionary and “here to stay” that have since been confined to history has a bad idea: blockchain and NFTs most recently, asbestos & DDT somewhat further back. Just because boosters like yourself have drunk the kool-aid is not sufficient evidence for your claim.
But that’s beside the point. The Canadian government doesn’t need to pour public funds into “AI” for it to succeed. Indeed if it’s as revolutionary as you claim, the public will spend their own funds or demand their taxes cover it… but they aren’t, are they? The public overwhelmingly hate it save for base entertainment. That’s not revolution, it’s very expensive porn, temporarily subsided by billionaires.
The cost of “AI” is astronomical, and I’m not just talking about the finances. The environmental cost is civilisation-crippling, and the benefits produced so far amount to [checks notes] a net loss in the hundreds of billions of dollars, stolen culture, skill atrophy, loss of agency, oh! and psychosis.
Put the kool-aid down friend and try looking at this more objectively. It’s a non-solution for a problem we don’t have that’s causing incalculable harm. Public money should not be funding it.
It’s hard to take you seriously my friend. To begin with, I don’t think you’ve explored the topic of AI very deeply. For sure the industry and the technology is out over its skis right now, but there is no putting that genie back in the bottle. Your ‘solution’ is naive in the extreme. AI will change society whether we want to ignore it or not. Do you suppose that we could have ignored or reversed the agricultural revolution, or the industrial revolution?
Our effort is better spent growing with it, understanding it, and merging it into our society in a way that respects our values and our goals.
You’re making a lot of assumptions that have yet to be backed up with evidence. There have been a lot of inventions that people claimed were revolutionary and “here to stay” that have since been confined to history has a bad idea: blockchain and NFTs most recently, asbestos & DDT somewhat further back. Just because boosters like yourself have drunk the kool-aid is not sufficient evidence for your claim.
But that’s beside the point. The Canadian government doesn’t need to pour public funds into “AI” for it to succeed. Indeed if it’s as revolutionary as you claim, the public will spend their own funds or demand their taxes cover it… but they aren’t, are they? The public overwhelmingly hate it save for base entertainment. That’s not revolution, it’s very expensive porn, temporarily subsided by billionaires.
The cost of “AI” is astronomical, and I’m not just talking about the finances. The environmental cost is civilisation-crippling, and the benefits produced so far amount to [checks notes] a net loss in the hundreds of billions of dollars, stolen culture, skill atrophy, loss of agency, oh! and psychosis.
Put the kool-aid down friend and try looking at this more objectively. It’s a non-solution for a problem we don’t have that’s causing incalculable harm. Public money should not be funding it.