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Ed Zitron

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The AI Industry Must Stop Doom Trolling w/ Cal Newport

You can go two weeks in the future, Max.

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The AI Industry Must Stop Doom Trolling w/ Cal Newport

I think that because when you read any story about AI that's positive, it always speaks in the future tense.

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The AI Industry Must Stop Doom Trolling w/ Cal Newport

It does not speak about what's happening now.

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The AI Industry Must Stop Doom Trolling w/ Cal Newport

And when they do speak about what's happening now, it's the vaguest stuff in the world.

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The AI Industry Must Stop Doom Trolling w/ Cal Newport

It's like it can write or it can autonomously write software.

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The AI Industry Must Stop Doom Trolling w/ Cal Newport

Is the software good?

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The AI Industry Must Stop Doom Trolling w/ Cal Newport

No.

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The AI Industry Must Stop Doom Trolling w/ Cal Newport

Is it stable?

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The AI Industry Must Stop Doom Trolling w/ Cal Newport

No.

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The AI Industry Must Stop Doom Trolling w/ Cal Newport

Can you even actually do anything with it if you don't know what you're doing?

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The AI Industry Must Stop Doom Trolling w/ Cal Newport

No.

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The AI Industry Must Stop Doom Trolling w/ Cal Newport

Is the code overly verbose?

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The AI Industry Must Stop Doom Trolling w/ Cal Newport

Yes.

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The AI Industry Must Stop Doom Trolling w/ Cal Newport

It's like there are tons of problems with it, but one sentence allows the generalities to grow.

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The AI Industry Must Stop Doom Trolling w/ Cal Newport

And also, I think there's a very obvious reason they don't talk about the present.

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The AI Industry Must Stop Doom Trolling w/ Cal Newport

Because it's kind of boring.

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The AI Industry Must Stop Doom Trolling w/ Cal Newport

It is.

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The AI Industry Must Stop Doom Trolling w/ Cal Newport

In comparison to a big, sexy, autonomous robot, it's incredibly boring to say.

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The AI Industry Must Stop Doom Trolling w/ Cal Newport

But also, the business doesn't work.

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The AI Industry Must Stop Doom Trolling w/ Cal Newport

The business doesn't function.