AI is most important tech advance in decades
I don&#x27;t disagree but it&#x27;s such a shit advancement. It eschews making technology &amp; understanding closer. It amplifies our capabilities yes, but in 99.99999% of cases in deep violation of Engelbartian principles: it&#x27;s not intellectual augmentation, it doesn&#x27;t extend how we think, it thinks for us. It&#x27;s revilesome &amp; further unhinges &amp; decouples us from the real world.<p>It&#x27;s an alien, a remote expert system, that 0.1% of the 0.1% of AI practioners have even the faintest real-ish understanding of. It is a fantastic expert, of deep experience, but it is an idiot savant, and no peer in lifting us up as well.<p>I have never been sadder to see a technology. I lived through the seemingly incredibly short term of Personal Computing which seemingly is at it&#x27;s final ends, first eroded by online-services &amp; Service-as-a-Software-Substitute (SaaSS), and now fatalitied in a Mortal Kombat style by idiot machines fed on the immolent corpus of the internet of posts. A system which seems all too destined to radically outstrip the pop-culture-will-eat-itself idea with a new ultra-hyper-self-consuming internetworked online-content-will-be-begat-by-AIs-begat-by-online-content Oroborous.<p>None of this shit informs. None of it makes clear. None of it raises human consciousness. It&#x27;s the best monkey on a type-writer the universe-we-know has ever seen, but it&#x27;s utterly without soul or character or purpose, is a refined regurgatory mimic devoid of purpose. This is the worst thing to happen to technology.<p>And humanity will spend the rest of my life obsessing over it &amp; fascinated with it. It&#x27;s all bad magic. It&#x27;s all against-the-cause. This is the worst shadow-puppet machine humankind has ever invented, and it&#x27;s visage chains us to the wall. Do Not Want.