We are all doomed. Or we are all about to enter a science-fiction version of the land of Cockaigne where free stuff rains down from the skies and people can enjoy themselves doing whatever strikes their fancy without having to spend a minute working for pay. Though most of those who are involved in the development of Artificial Intelligence assume that it will have to be one or the other, there is no agreement as to which of the two drastically different futures they envisage is most probable.
As things stand, the pessimists are making the running. A few days ago, one such, Dario Amodei, the CEO of a multibillion company called Anthropic, warned us that AI is becoming so good at what it does that it could soon destroy human civilisation. Given that it feeds on what has already been thought and done as recorded in the available texts which, needless to say, contain much that is downright horrifying, the unease they feel mak
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