AI Is Garbage and a Bubble (Please Learn This) • Richard Carrier Blogs

" There is no AI. What is being called artificial intelligence and sold as snake oil under that label is actually artificial stupidity. It will destroy your own personal ability to critically reason. It will destroy your company—by reducing, not increasing, productivity; and by increasing, not reducing, your risk-exposure to critical errors. And it will destroy the economy. Not by taking jobs. It will never replace any significant number of jobs, because it is garbage. It can't do even the simplest job. It fucks up more than a tween on weed. Rather, it will destroy the economy by wrecking pensions and banks and tanking the global economic system, resulting in massive layoffs and food lines, because any time now trillions of dollars of the global economy are literally going to evaporate—the moment people realize they are being conned and AI can never make money, or do any of the big things its grifters have desperately been claiming, and they even more desperately try to sell their position, and the whole stock market crashes..."

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