also argued with my dad and brother about ai. my brother's argument was more or less "it's neat" to which I say, I guess but it's not really particularly useful to the layman it's just kinda a novelty and is a waste of resources. and my dad's was "there's so much it could do!" and to that I say okay but is it doing that? like truly, is anyone actually doing those things? is that where the money in ai is going? is that a good use of resources? like there are obvious use cases for ai technology but most of those are specialized, and not where the energy and funding in the industry are going.
and like ai is in some ways similar to the idea of using brain chips to help people with disabilities in the sense that... sure it would be neat if that were a viable thing. but yknow what would be good and very much attainable with current technology? working on things like prosthetics and other more "simple" accessibility tech. making those things better and more affordable. and like there's all kinds of lofty things ai could hypothetically do one day but you know what could be done today? literally just.. so many things that would be more useful. so fucking many.
