I don't agree with this.

There's a big difference between something that benefits productivity versus something that benefits humanity.

I think a good test for if it genuinely has changed society is if all gen AI were to disappear overnight. I would argue that nothing would really fundamentally change.

Contrast that with the sudden disappearance of the internet, or the combustion engine.

Work doesn't benefit humanity, work is the chains that keep us living the same day over and over til we die.

Your idea of benefit to humanity clearly doesn't involve the end of work, mine does.

AI can end work for most of us but that has to be what we want, can't be limiting it all the time bc of stupid reasons and expect it to have all the answers as if it weren't limited, that's silly.

If AI disappeared tonight so too would the future where nobody works in a call center or doing data entry or making button graphics to client exact specifications for a website nobody will ever see.

This is the Old World we live in rn - I don't want it to stay.

> I would argue that nothing would really fundamentally change.

I argue that there would be a huge collective sigh of relief from a large number of people. Not everybody, maybe not even a majority, but a large number nonetheless.

So I think it has changed society -- but perhaps not for the better overall.

It will take time though, if the internet had completely disappeared in the mid 90s nothing would have fundamentally changed