The whole AI discourse honestly makes me very sad. I think, though maybe I'm hallucinating, that adults in the West used to have a real sense of taste, as well as a healthy respect for craftsmanship and quality.
Now it feels like more and more of our population are novelty junkies, doomscrollers, and, in many cases, literal junkies. They don't produce anything, nor do they consume anything well-made or artisanal or interesting / intellectual. Nothing that would challenge them or expand their horizons. It's just an endless addiction, an eternal search for novelty. Garbage in, garbage out.
As people have turned towards endless addictions, poor quality has become normalized across the board. Nobody makes food at home, they eat out or heat pre-made "food" in the microwave. Nobody reads or writes or has a dairy, but they do subscribe to various feeds on social media. Corporations refuse to make working products, they specialize in making things WORSE on purpose, while charging higher and higher prices. Politicians promise the future, while the infrastructure collapses. It goes on and on.
All kinds of professions that required real expertise and know-how have disappeared from everyday life. The only thing we really have these days are generic "experts", in which case the title is more of an appeal to authority than an actual sign of competence, education, special training, etc.
AI becoming the standard in some field or another will be the natural outcome of this collapse in standards, not some kind of new move into the future. In academia, for example, they are so used to pumping out slop that it could all be generated by a machine-- nobody reads it, so who cares if it means anything? I assume the same logic will hold in other areas.
Related to that, you never see any explanation of things on social media, from anyone. Nobody mentions history, either patterns stretching back into the past or stuff that happened 10 or 20 years ago, cases or examples to draw insights from-- absolutely nothing. Nobody can lay out their motives or analysis of this or that subject, either. The most you get these days, assuming some kind of content and not a glib emotional response, are BS verbal games, all of which consist of fine-tuning the definitions of words, like define 'x' or define 'this', until you arrive at whatever outcome you wanted. Actual reasoning, analysis, drawing conclusions from established facts, consulting models... all totally gone.
ReplyDeleteThey simply don't have the knowledge, attention span, and IQ to perform something like that, including the self-styled experts. It's all so delusional and insane!