alt Hacker NewsAI's consumption superpower reminds me of birds, flying about eating worms, then flying back to the nest and regurgitating them into baby's mouth, because it's the processed nutrition they provide that valuable; their own consumption is a combination of fractional/temporary
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"AI" is more like a bird that flies around eating worms, sometimes regurgitates the nutrition, and sometimes regurgitates a pound of bolts. Then it apologizes, flies around again, and regurgitates pebbles. It does it again but this time it regurgitates acid that vaguely appears to be the same nutritious substance. If it flies around too much it will lose it's context and begin to think it's not a bird but rather a donkey.
Most of "AI"s superpower is tricking monkeys into anthropomorphizing it. It's just a giant, complicated, expensive, environmentally destructive math computer with no capability to create novel thought. If it did have one superpower it's gaslighting and manipulation.
I think the key difference (and risk) is that with AI we sometimes forget to check what got digested and what got lost along the way