What we currently call “AI” is not intelligent, and won’t be.
The current AI boom will end in a financial crash.
The AI industry causes terrible ecological and social damage.
What we currently call “AI” is not intelligent, and won’t be.
The current AI boom will end in a financial crash.
The AI industry causes terrible ecological and social damage.
The mess we’re in was not only foreseeable; it was foreseen. In 1972 a landmark paper was published: The Limits to Growth (Meadows et al. 1972), hereafter simply called Limits. It’s been called “the most influential science paper of the last 50 years”.
Is it possible to maintain digital autonomy and still work with AI?
To find out, I experimented with a privacy-preserving open source AI solution for working with your personal files. The results were underwhelming.
