I’m changing my view on an AI-powered future… in a positive way

I’m changing my view on an AI-powered future… in a positive way!

If we can figure out human/AI alignment issues in the next year or two, we have a good chance of entering an era of technological prosperity.

What changed? The rise of LMM’s.

You may have heard of LLM’s, Large Language Models, which provide the brains of AI.

But now, we’re starting to see Large Multimodal Models (LMM’s).

These extend the brains of AI by being able to interact with the outside world. They can see, listen, and interpret the world.

What’s does this mean? Lots!

Manufacturing will improve immensely thanks to advanced QC, helpful robots will be accessible to most households, disabled people will be able to live normal-ish lives, science research will exponentially expand, healthcare will be able to diagnose issues better, etc. the list goes on and on with better innovations.

While I’m now going to consider myself an AI Optimist, I still think we have important issues to work out, like jobs going away. But if society learns how to learn (and continuously re-learn), we should be able to adapt to this quickly changing world.