I'm in total agreement, but let's take it a step further.
I think many who pay enough attention know the downside to this AI craze, including the massive market bubble, but many many others don't. They think it is the next best thing, the latest and greatest, and it will make our lives better. Look what we can do now, think what we will be able to as time goes on. They have a point. But...
Where the computer world really changed things was time. They took math, therefore physics, and turned them into zero's and ones. IPS they call it - instructions per seconds. The rest is history. A football size room full of drafting boards using pencil, paper, a mechanical arm, and a slide rule used to design our cars, homes, bridges, airplanes, and the NASA crafts.
The binary number system was the Oscar winner when it came to computers. But this AI stuff isn't the same thing. The internet has been a huge step forward for everyone, without a doubt, but it comes with a price. Usually jobs, because that's how things work. Zero's and ones gave us computers, CAD systems, CNC machines, and robots - the physical AI that can do manual labor (and a whole bunch of other things - like being armed). It always starts with the blue collar workers, then the white collar. Physical jobs, then mental jobs. Indirect labor they call us.
This will be no different, except if this isn't all it's cracked up to be, and I don't think it is; the damages might be very bad. Company commits to AI, fires people because AI will do their job. Doesn't work, can't hire anyone back. Then what? And everything is all ****ed up because of bad decisions like this. In the quadrant lesson on efficient production from an Edward Deming class they are in the state of chaos. Don't know how to get out.
And AI won't work, because it can't.
We are teaching it, not the other way around. It can't know what I know because it didn't do what I did for 40 plus years. Doesn't matter the job. There are things we know because we know. I can't explain that, but it's true. We have a hard enough time teaching humans how to do their job FFS.
We are training these bots, their fine print tells us that. It's the only way it can work. This is all fool's gold.
Still reminds me of crazy Teddie the Uni*omber. He was a Luddite. For those who like to read, long article from April 2000 by a guy named Bill Joy, chief scientist of Sun Microsystems and Java language expert.
Why the future doesn't need us - Wired magazine