The AI Snake Oil blog rebrands to AI as Normal Technology, shifting away from hype criticism

@__nmca__ fast forward: “AI is only as important as the Industrial Revolution”

wait did the “ai snake oil” people literally have to rename their blog to “ai as normal technology”?

@tszzl @__nmca__ They actually did sort of compare it to the industrial revolution already more than a year ago: https://knightcolumbia.org/content/ai-as-normal-technology

@tszzl @__nmca__ fast forward further: "All bow at the feat of our divine creation"

@__nmca__ let ye who has not retreated to the confines of their motte after having spent years luxiarating in their expansive bailey cast the first stone

@tszzl @__nmca__ They're already comparing AI to the Industrial Revolution. "Normal technology" now just means no fast takeoff.

@__nmca__ because the grift has to be adjusted constantly as they are proven wrong

@__nmca__ To be clear, the premise of that book (and the original blog) was not ‘AI is snake oil’, it was that many specific use cases of predictive AI were snake oil (i.e. it didn’t do what they marketed it could do). Basically everything they said in that period still holds up today.

@tszzl @__nmca__ “AI is more important than the Industrial Revolution.”

@tszzl @__nmca__ if advancement stopped today i think we’d already hit this marker tbh

@tszzl @__nmca__ More important than the entire industrial revolution combined.

@tszzl @__nmca__ “AI is only more important than the Industrial Revolution” will be funnier!

@tszzl @__nmca__ its sometimes fun to read these opinions from the people who do not understand stuff, just to get the idea of how much behind we are in general in terms of knowledge distribution

@tszzl @__nmca__ Evan Sabine is ASI pilled now

@tszzl @__nmca__ these guys are good faith and engage in reasonable arguments, no reason for rich elites to shit on them

@tszzl @__nmca__ fast forward again: ai is the best thing since betty white