> he is enjoying the fact that "their tails have been cut by AI"

Manager. FAANG. Enjoys the misfortune of the people he manages. Your friend sounds like a prick to me.

Because improvement in human QoL is not a requirement for a revolutionary technology. Nuclear weapons come to mind.

We're talking about something that speculatively invalidates all digital data. All code created prior is seen with lesser value to the point of commodification because of its existence. We are past the slow erosion of trust of the photoshop or Wikipedia era. You can't trust anything digital anymore. Encryption is our last hope, and companies now join governments in the race to break it.

Perhaps a bit of a leap but based on their phrasing, I'd be very critical of a viewpoint in management who believes themselves immune from what's occurring to specialized talent across the board. We are intergalactially far away from IBM's "never let a computer make a management decision." A concerningly large number of people submit their data, thinking, and agency to these tools. The impact is real even if not personally felt or in your backyard.

I think that has more to do with the job market than "AI". All my coworkers have become yes-men due to perceived job insecurity. Not sure this is a positive thing even if it's superficially appealing to a middle-manager.

>If this tech is so revolutionary how come nothing in my life has changed positively.

That's a bit of a myopic view. Imagine someone asking the same question a few years after the invention of the printing press.

It's not hard to find examples of how AI is changing things. To take just one example, look at how it's revolutionizing research in science and mathematics. I wouldn't expect this to change the average person's life overnight, but there are absolutely going to be huge breakthroughs in the next few decades.

So your friend's life is not still the same?