alt Hacker NewsCan you name 3 ways is positively impacted the average non tech persons life in a meaningful way? Meaningful would be more than the invention of the microwave, but not as important as a vaccine.
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Microwave took decades from invention to being normal. VHS took weeks. The difference was pornography.
1. destruction of the digital arts (music, 2d/3d art) industry
2. greatest hacking tool in history
3. greatest corporate espionage tool in history (stealing of Navier-Stokes solution)
4. greatest accountability transfer tool in history (whoops it was the AI that shot those missiles)
5. greatest capital raising tool in history (we use AI in our startup, and you should give us money)
6. greatest scamming tool in history (cloning people voices for scam calls, etc..)
Edit:Whoops, I didn't read "positively"
We're at the dot com boom stage of AI. You could say it didn't deliver because boo.com didn't make a profit or because the average person still used paper maps, but that was just because of momentum.
It's the same with AI. The technology is here now. My friends in financial advice and market research have not lost their jobs immediately, because of momentum.
Democratization of information. I think it's a similar jump a pre-internet search to internet search...
I am not going to make up 3 things but it meaningfully replaced Google search that became unusable crap.
Downside is that OpenAI is already having ads on their chat interface, so I guess it will be crap any time soon.