Within 4 years most words read by a human will have been written by an AI. I expect that most people reading this will quickly agree with that prediction.
What are the odds that this could happen, without AI actually taking over?
“Most of what you read came from AI” and “AI is making all the decisions that govern the world” seem pretty highly correlated to me.
I don’t see it like you do as long as the LLMs aren’t as smart as humans (or more precisely as smart as organizations of humans, e.g., police departments and things like that).
Consider that the communist party in the Soviet Union had a near monopoly on what a Soviet citizen could read and could consume in the way of news and opinion, but still lost power.
Also, providing LLMs for use by humans will probably be a competitive market.
I think you’d have to already be living in a world of dehumanized communication, to not see this as a fundamental change in human existence. Even the sleepers entombed in The Matrix interact mostly with other human beings.
What are words even for? They convey the thoughts and feelings of other people. They store useful information, they convey questions and commands… So you’re describing a world where people are mostly reacting to the thoughts and feelings of AIs, where AIs are in charge of all the information we use throughout the day, and where it is mostly AIs that are asking us questions and telling us what to do.
What are the odds that this could happen, without AI actually taking over?
“Most of what you read came from AI” and “AI is making all the decisions that govern the world” seem pretty highly correlated to me.
I don’t see it like you do as long as the LLMs aren’t as smart as humans (or more precisely as smart as organizations of humans, e.g., police departments and things like that).
Consider that the communist party in the Soviet Union had a near monopoly on what a Soviet citizen could read and could consume in the way of news and opinion, but still lost power.
Also, providing LLMs for use by humans will probably be a competitive market.
I think you’d have to already be living in a world of dehumanized communication, to not see this as a fundamental change in human existence. Even the sleepers entombed in The Matrix interact mostly with other human beings.
What are words even for? They convey the thoughts and feelings of other people. They store useful information, they convey questions and commands… So you’re describing a world where people are mostly reacting to the thoughts and feelings of AIs, where AIs are in charge of all the information we use throughout the day, and where it is mostly AIs that are asking us questions and telling us what to do.