Jaron Lanier on the danger of AI
I'm more concerned that the people using LLM's will drive me insane. I hope that I don't get flooded with LLM-generated emails and documentation from colleagues and co-workers that don't bother to proof-read what they send me. It will be a frustrating day when I reply to them with a question and they don't have an answer because they don't even know what they sent me.Multiply that by all of the boilerplate code I'll end up reading. No pleasant abstractions that hide complexity and are reinforced by laws checked by properties or proofs; abstractions that make the problem easier to understand and communicate. Instead, endless bowls of oatmeal code: similar, bland, and laborious to read. Who knows if the model "hallucinated" this code and whether the author bothered to check it before asking for a review. Who knows how long before I get bored and worn down and stop bothering to read it myself.And then we're supposed to change our job titles to "Prompt Engineers"? How absurd is that. Nothing about what you do is creative, human, or interesting. Now your job is to feed sentences into an LLM to get it to do all that work for you... how long until that dead-end job gets replaced?Maybe this could drive us all insane from burnout and nihilism.