The World Will Enter a 15-Year AI Dystopia in 2027, Former Google Exec Says

While I do agree with a lot of the points made in the article, most of them seem rather basic stuff that everybody has been talking about since AI has started to rise. The tool isn't necessarily the problem, it's the capitalist incentives for which it is created and used that drive us further towards dystopia. I found it rather funny to read a former exec criticizing capitalism. I wonder what he's up to now?

Also, both the year 2027 and the timespan of 15 years seem confidently pulled out of his backside :).

“You cannot regulate the design of a hammer so that it can drive nails but not kill anyone, but you can criminalize the killing of a human by a hammer,” Gawdat said.

God I hate managers who think they're so deep 🙄

LLMs won't get smarter in the next 10 years, but they will rapidly outpace humans.