If the answer is no, this is the follow-up: - Are we in the middle of an AI psychosis epidemic (pandemic?) that has yet to peak?
AI was supposed to devalue a lot of sophisticated work, but we are seeing the opposite.
And it’s not just the creator of the slop that thinks they are a genius - that’s understandable, they might need that, the sycophantic LLMs tuned for increasing engagement sniped them, etc. But the consumer of the slop also appears extremely impressed with prose that sometimes hurts to read, and lacks any intellectual value or sophistication. With absolutely no validation of value, people are almost charmed like a snake.
Last question: Is it a “hard times, strong men/women, good times, weak men/women” thing, and our generation caught the end of the good times?
I am almost sad that Knuth had to see these days.
He would bring up Herbert Simons Theory of Bounded Rationality and tell you to zoom down to a level you do have control over. Satisficing solutions become the norm not optimal solutions.
we're slowly learning to make our peace with a new pace, and that psychosis will definitely peak, allowing us to slowly be disillusioned, make it a normal part of what we do, and detach to some extend
Is this much different than all the people being really into formulaic pop music or bad movies? Mumble rap was popular, which was essentially prose that would hurt to read, slurred out in a way that was hard to understand, but it had a beat.
Most people aren’t all that critical and the less capable they are in a certain area, the less critical they tend to be.
I assume most people on this site have had the experience of throwing together a quick little script or website that doesn’t extend too far beyond Hello World, and someone is blown away by it, because it’s something they don’t think they could ever do. There was no major value to the code or sophistication, yet it was impressive to those who don’t understand what is happening behind the scenes.
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” - Arthur C. Clarke
People love their magic.
CEOs and VCs promising a utopian vision with technology (for themselves), and almost always it is the opposite (a dystopia) for everyone else.
> Last question: Is it a “hard times, strong men/women, good times, weak men/women” thing, and our generation caught the end of the good times?
Given that absolutely no-one has a viable solution to the economic ramifications of job displacement with "AGI" (whatever that means) and only promising a copium utopia, what if there would never be a "good times" for people with jobs on this planet, except for zero-sum activities like gambling, speculation and the financialization of every single thing?
Because other than a roboticist, the only job(s) that will exist are the ones that humans will have no choice to do: to replace someone else's or work for the government to be a soldier to fight someone else's war, until governments build robots for wars.