AI actually seems far less alien than steam engines, trains, submarines, flight, and space travel.

People weren't sure if human bodies could handle moving at >50mph.

All those steam engines, trains and submarines were steps toward what we are seeing now. AI is the logical culmination and the purpose of technology.

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aeternum 4 days ago | parent [-]

People said similar things about the internet: never before has all human knowledge been available in one place (they forgot about libraries apparently).

I think it's more likely that AI is just a further concentration of human knowledge. It makes it even more accessible but will AI actually add to it?

Why doesn't the logical culmination of technology require quantum computers?

Or the merging of human and machine brains?

Or a solar system-scale particle accelerator?

Or whatever the next technology is that we aren't even aware of yet?

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akomtu 3 days ago | parent [-]

AI means technology no longer needs humans. With AI, technology will become a quasi-lifeform, competing with us for resources.

	▲	aeternum 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		I'm not convinced, is AI really sufficient to develop into a lifeform or specifically, to develop a separate will? It's quite possible it's more like the computer in Star Trek. Highly capable and able to perform complex agentic tasks but lacks a will to act on its own.