I don’t dispute this and there are publicly funded efforts that at a small scale, do help people where there isn’t ROI. A few people with blindness or paralysis have received brain implants. A few people have received gene therapies. But the overall thread is it significant. Is the technology mainstream, with massive amounts of sales and R&D effort going into improving it? Is it benefitting most living humans? And the answer is no and no. The brain implants and gene therapies are not very good: they are frankly crap, for the reason that there is not enough resources to make them better.
And from a utilitarian perspective this is correct: in a world where you have very finite resources, most of those resources should be spent on activities that give ROI, as in more resources than you started with. This may sound “callous” but having more resources allows more people to benefit overall from a general sense.
This is why AI and AGI is so different : it trivially gives ROI. Just the current llms produce more value per dollar, on the subset of tasks they are able to do, than any educated human, even from the cheapest countries.
I don’t dispute this and there are publicly funded efforts that at a small scale, do help people where there isn’t ROI. A few people with blindness or paralysis have received brain implants. A few people have received gene therapies. But the overall thread is it significant. Is the technology mainstream, with massive amounts of sales and R&D effort going into improving it? Is it benefitting most living humans? And the answer is no and no. The brain implants and gene therapies are not very good: they are frankly crap, for the reason that there is not enough resources to make them better.
And from a utilitarian perspective this is correct: in a world where you have very finite resources, most of those resources should be spent on activities that give ROI, as in more resources than you started with. This may sound “callous” but having more resources allows more people to benefit overall from a general sense.
This is why AI and AGI is so different : it trivially gives ROI. Just the current llms produce more value per dollar, on the subset of tasks they are able to do, than any educated human, even from the cheapest countries.