I guess iām glad my complete disregard for proper sentence structure and punctuation means that no one will think iām copy/pasting AI output.
Thatās exactly what an AI would say.
Lol. So Iām watching tennis and reading this thread when a commercial comes on for Babbel touting their AI integration.
Babbel, the worldās top-selling language learning platform, today unveils two new speech-based technologies - āAI-Enhanced Speech Recognitionā and 'Everyday Conversationsā - to develop the confidence levels and proficiency of its users in preparation for real life conversations.
I can see it nowā¦
I mean, I donāt disagree, but the difference is that I donāt think AI will have anything to do with it.
Yeah, honestly I think thatās kind of his point, too. He said for exampleā¦
But Gawdat says AI is not necessarily the main driver of this dystopia, and especially not in the way most people imagine (that is, existential risks from scenarios that have AI assuming full control). Rather, Gawdat says that AI acts as a magnifier of existing societal issues and āour stupidities as humans.ā
So, the dystopia was not a byproduct of AI, but a byproduct of the capitalist system.
Precisely: AI wonāt be the cause, itās just a symptom.
If I had to pick a start for dystopia, I would go with 2015-2016, when refugees of the first political crises seriously exacerbated by climate change started reaching Europe in large numbersā¦and the western countries made it plain that their response was going to be the exact opposite of fixing anything.
Thatās a good date, though maybe the first inkling might have been the 2008 crash? But the wave of refugees moving into Europe is a strong contenderā¦
Yepā¦ especially considering the west engineered this problem to begin withā¦
To be clear, Iām only referring to the key role of climate change in the Syrian drought, not the absolutely disgusting invasion of the Middle East and then leaving the people there to manage as best they can. Because western countries overthrowing governments for the sake of oil companies is in no ways a new dystopia. 
If Iām reading him correctly, he thinks that misuse of AI by capitalism will be the means by which this dystopia will come about (because weāll make bad decisions about this highly powerful, competent AI), whereas I think AI will be pretty much irrelevant in that context, except where people uncritically make decisions based on the output of āAIā systems that arenāt remotely competent to make those decisions (as is happening now). He thinks AI will transform everything and weāll stupidly be unprepared for it, but Iād say stupidity is already causing the dystopia, and AIās negative impact, if any, will be about people acting as if it has transformed things that it hasnāt.
In a sense, I think he is saying itās the cause, in the sense that itās the instrument that makes it possible. Heās sort of denying it with a āguns donāt kill people, people kill peopleā dodge, but heās painting a picture of a situation that wouldnāt come about without (his belief in a particular kind of hypothetical, future) AI.
You might have a problem dude. Get help.
I donāt know! Iād never heard of it/them. I see it starts off in the Barack Obama plaza. Which is kind of a legendary example of notions!
I will try to watch today.
Translation: weāve been spending the better part of a decade hyping the idea that our systems are just around the corner from achieving human-like, artificial general intelligence, in opposition to every shred of evidence; now that people are starting to call us on those claims, we have had the epiphany that these categories are ānot super usefulā, so stop asking.