Yes, it may be a good thing.
Howver, what I really want to point out is that tight ties between state and industry, along with military and civil integration, allow AI to be steered toward surveillance, censorship, security, and military uses with reduced public oversight, with no transparency and accountability.
Remember COVID? no transparency and accountability (if the rumour about a lab work is true).
Are we all looking forward to the abundance of money that we’ll all have, according to Mr Musk via Super Intelligence.
Pffft…wanna buy a bridge?
Horriffic letter in a certain mag today about someone wuth a recently bereaved sister in law who is taking great solace in some maudlin country songs which she does not as yet realise are AI generated and targeted.
We can moan as much as we like about AI (super intelligence for some …) or try and run from it but it is here to stay and you are already part of it. I hope people here are aware that by merely using your browser, this forum, YouTube and most things web now you are using and furthering AI.
My advise; Make it work for you, don’t be afraid of questioning results, test it.
Personally I have subscribed to a higher tier. I have an agent helping me with my electronics studies and what a (for me) indispensable help it is. Along literature (loads), courses and instructive YT videos it is a fantastic help guiding me along. AL (yes 
) makes the odd mistake but I get satisfaction in occasionally challenging him (it). It’s good fun too, believe me. Schematics analysis, fault finding, purchasing and sourcing assistance etc etc etc. Amazing help.
Now you can argue that all this can be researched and found without AI.
Sure, it can. But in the absence of a personal teacher if I am not in a course, the fact that I may have another 10 or 15 years during which I can use my skills, why not use every help I can get!
What does AI say about optimists? 
A statement for which there is no evidence base but we keep hearing because…
History is full of examples of things which were here to stay and yet they aren’t.
Nope, you’re not. My browser, for example, allows me to turn off every AI feature offered as well as those running on AI. Doubt I’m furthering AI on YouTube by blocking adverts etc.
The whole “you can’t resist it so why try?” schtick is marketing blx swallowed whole. Plenty of people are actively, successfully and impressively resisting AI. I suggest reading up on them as a healthy antidote to fatalism.
… because you’re putting teachers out of jobs and there’s an impressive and growing body of evidence suggesting that teaching materials using AI are the least nuanced, least accurate and least effective form of all learning.
I think I use AI in much the same way. I do mathematical research but I don’t have access to any educational support. For writing a research paper I would benefit from a sponsor to act as a sounding board. I use a subscription AI instead which works really well. I know enough about my subject to spot errors or misunderstandings in the AI, so as a process it is self checking. It is also incredibly efficient.
The key thing for me is that in this context AI is just a tool and as with any tool it is essential to know how to use it and to retain ownership and control of the results.
So instead of employing you I simply use AI and do it myself thus saving money?
In general any new innovation can change the employment market. It has always been that way, since the start of the Industrial Revolution at least.
In my case there has been no adverse impact on employment, as far as I can tell.
You missed the letter ‘A’ out! 
It’s all over the place from taxi drivers to developers/coders to help lines to online chat etc
You haven’t answered my question BTW.
I have no idea what you are talking about.
So instead of employing you I simply use AI and do it myself thus saving money?
Repeating the same post doesn’t add anything.
It’s a bit like cable debates, we won’t convince each other so I won’t bite .
(And you cannot circumnavigate AI if using the web. The answer is too extensive for me to even attempt, especially when tackling a lovely Sunday roast but you could use AI to tell you why in far better way than I ever could )
Sweet that you think you “cannot”. You actually can and with surprising ease. If only there were some non AI way of finding out…
Nothing personal but I despise fatalism.
People who ignore history telling us repeatedly that you can shape or stop anything if you want to. People who simplistically think that because they’ve found a use case for them that there’s a use case for everybody and the thing they’re using is both inevitable and de facto for the common good. People who think so simplistically that because other voices are saying the same as them then they must be right.
Nothing could be a better example of that than the “it’s only going to get better” brigade. The evidence for that is basically that a lot of people believe it’s self-evident. The fact every “advance” is producing both less predictable and less correct outcomes is simply pushed to one side even when its right in your face. Health outcomes are reported as astonishing even as others report they can’t be replicated outside a lab etc. There’s not even anyone expressing concern it wasn’t made clear that such transformational technology hssn’t yet left the lab. It’s almost like no-one has heard the words “Kool Aid”.
One fun area of AI we’ll likely see more of soon is “physical AI”, systems that team up with robots and machines to work in the real world instead of just creating text or images. Humanoid robots are being actively tested in places like warehouses and factories right now.
Confusing and unproductive article. AI does not have a soul, and never will.
