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tremontoday at 1:52 PM1 replyview on HN

Is AI advancing humanity, though? Or is it only advancing technology while divorcing it from the human?


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riskabletoday at 2:08 PM

Define, "advancing humanity."

Are we talking about turning everyone into philosophers and somehow ascending to a higher plane of existence? Yeah, AI isn't going to help with that (probably).

Or are we talking about useful, positive benefits to every day people like better speech recognition, tools for the visually impaired, disease research, physics research, science in general, and loads of other areas where AI is improving things?