and is full of crap.

AI is not about making fake videos... that is not the revenue stream.

There is concern about eliminating jobs... especially entry level white collar and service jobs ( "make I take your order please?" ). It may eliminate jobs involving operating machinery at some point... self driving vehicles will be here... not overnight, but soon. We may all need to rethink what is income and how to "earn" a living. I do worry about that.

Sam Altman is both an asshole and, in many ways, an idiot. Looking at his company "openAI" as the yardstick by which all of AI is measured is ridiculous. Like many "first to market" with a new technology, OpenAI may well fail while the overall AI technology trend moves on.

Projecting future trends in AI spending... going out 5 years or more... based on the last few years on initial build out is just plain silly.

Same is true of power consumption and cooling technologies. Thinking outside the box ( let's put AI data centers in SPACE!!! ) is only an interesting cerebral exercise not based in fundamentals. What will happen is that AI technology ( the chips that allow for AI math to process in "real time" ) will shrink, become more specialized, and use much less power. Yes, power and cooling are an issue right now... and the race to be the first in AI ( the few successful AI companies ) is creating both supply chain issues right now as well as DC construction and resource allocation issues.

Stopping AI? Many here want to. Good luck... you might as well hold back the ocean with a pitchfork. Can we pass laws to keep it from being misused... yes, and we should. Just like we should have created laws to keep the internet from being misused. Are we wise enough to do that? Probably not.

Full disclosure - I work for a company heavily involved in AI. That said, my opinions are my own. But then early in my career I was one of the people that invented the Internet too.

But he didn't say it's about making fake videos. What he said was that is about all that's come out of it so far. I haven't seen anything to prove to me that AI is making any more of an impact on my life other than automation answering systems that weren't too much more helpful than their ancestors.

and he is factually inaccurate in numerous places... especially in the projections of what the AI build out will do.

As to the benefits... I use AI all the time to help me in my job. It is getting better and better. I used to check everything the prompt generated to see if the answer was accurate... now I simply run validity tests on the generated code... and put it into production within days not weeks or months.

Like I said, AI will run factories and warehouses and drive cars and trucks... it will do research into new drugs, more efficient energy production... and may be the key to creating fusion energy production that will finally kill off the fossil fuel without asking us all to give up things we decided we like ( the ability to travel, to have fresh fruit and veggies in the middle of winter, to live in a comfortable home in spite of winter or summer temperature variations ). Despite the protests of some people on DU, we as a society have decided against nuclear fission as a solution... and green energy is either too expensive or not productive enough to meet our energy demands. So I do hope that AI can help with this.

AI will, eventually, do more medical diagnosis and is already doing a better job than humans at detecting early cancer.

So... you may not use AI everyday, but indirectly you will be using what AI produces. Is it the end all be all? Of course not. It is yet another tool. Just like the internet that put a lot of mankind's knowledge at our fingertips... rather than having to go to the library and "do your own research". And just like the internet and the idiots that believe everything posted, AI will sometimes generate "slop".

I do worry about the future of the job market. I tell my daughter to be prepared for career changes and challenges. When I was a young child in the 1960s, people would get a job at XYZ corp, perhaps in the "mail room" or some such... and work their way into the executive suites... putting in 40 years and take retirement at 65. Those days never existed for me... I have worked at 6 different companies ( 7 including my own startup ) in my career... but always building on what I did in previous jobs. I don't think that is possible today. Not just changing companies but now you must retrain for a whole new career. AI will push this along... and maybe even take over many jobs that exists today.

The odd thing about anti-AI people is that they simultaneously claim that AI produces nothing but "slop" ( whatever that means ) and yet worry that AI is going to take THEIR job. Presumably doing their job for less money and producing better results ( else why would corporations do it? ).

Because they operate on greed above all. Why do you think all of our products are all sub-standard? Planned obsolescence, etc.

But I do know this:

Demand for RAM and storage chips have driven prices up to the point the home user/builder gets shafted.

AI is everywhere, it is turning me off the use, like CGI in movies and elsewhere.
Pets in videos doing human like things!
Really?

Misuse, like Deep Fakes, etc.