The funny part comes when it won't be able to be improved anymore because of regurgitating its own content all over.

Couldn’t adversarial networks be used to continue to improve quality? I guess we could wind up with a bunch of humans in the loop to help guide learning improvements too, seeing as we’ll all be unemployed (sort of joking).

There’s only so much information content that exists on the Internet. There’s a limit to it, and one cannot simply produce more info once that limit is reached, it goes against the entropy so to speak. And then, “garbage in - garbage out”.

In addition, I think we’re living in a huge bubble and are sort of entitled enough to think that Internet = human knowledge. So many jobs and skills are simply not transferable even using human language (and even if they hire an army if “trainers”). This is one of the core problems with the current incarnation of “AI” - tacit knowledge has always been the stumbling block, even back in the expert systems days when everyone was thinking what we’re thinking will happen today.

So until the machines can somehow gain consciousness, autonomous and nimble movement, the will to live and all of the deep levels of the human mind that are outside language, I think we’ll be pretty safe :-) And for now, on all of these parameters they aren’t even close to a cat.

Exactly, AI can regurgitate all the beautiful sunsets it has been trained on. An artist experiences a sunset and is inspired to create things inspired by the feeling of a sunset. These things could be textiles, furniture, abstract art, dessert, any number of functional items the color of the sunset, a short story, a mimi series....The misconception is that creativity is created by studying and copying past creativity. Creativity comes from living experience and is applied thoughout all aspects of our lives. The belief that AI trains the same way humans do is a sad misconception of the human experience.

Right? I think it's just the Silicon Valley again and again trying to push its single-minded vision that computers should be used to "solve" all of our problems. They see everything as a nail with a "problem" to solve with their hammer, and completely disregard that there's life outside their bubble in the SV.

99% of writing is meh? Ok, buddy.

Yes, you are right, I'm overly generous.

Between social sites, corporate BS and medias farms, it's more like 99.9999999999999999%.