Interesting article. My main criticism is that, given ChatGPT is already used by hundreds of millions of people every day, it's difficult to argue that current AI is a dead end. It has its flaws, but it is already useful in human-in-the-loop situations. It will partly or completely change the way we search for information on the internet and greatly enhance the ability to educate ourselves on anything. This is essentially a second Wikipedia moment. So, it is useful in its current form, to some extent.
It is certainly changing the way I search for information on the internet. Now there are lot of people, who instead of staying silent, post wildly wrong answers from an LLM. On a question or subject they themselves are not familiar with.
Some answers are very long and just re-state the previous comments as if they were explaining simple concepts to a five year old child.
In short: in the hands of humans, tools like ChatGPT cause exponential growth of spam, engagement farming and malicious disinformation and propaganda in internet. I fear these negative use cases are growing exponentially faster than the useful parts. We will all drown in AI manure.
2 years in we are still going and it is still becoming more and more useful. Keep in mind, things like multimodality are still in early stages so improvements are coming. It probably won't lead to AGI but still, these tools are doomed to become more and more useful. https://open.substack.com/pub/transitions/p/here-is-why-ther...
