AI is driving me crazy
It is clearly a very important advancement in tech, but still.
Imagine this: you need to find some information online, it exists, but you don't know exactely what it contains, so searching for it is kind of difficult. It could be how to fix something, like a dishwasher. Not a common problem that has an error code, but something more obscure.
Some guy in the Czech republic figured out how to fix it and wrote it on his blog.
Even if you knew the right search phrases to use, you're search would still not find it if you'd search in english.
A scenario like that is exactely why AI is here to stay, all the useful information online can be processed, categorized, tokenized, indexed, and ultimately searched and filtered to a perfect response to your query.
Let's be clear, the thing that most people call "AI" is exactely that, a search engine, that instead of searching webpages with text, it searches a database of "tokens" (maybe there is a word for this, but I don't know or care what it is, so I'll just call them tokens - tokenized ideas).
Yes, AI is here to stay. It is very useful. Instead of dealing with finicky search engines an parsing through pages of poorly written user generated content, we can instead have summaries pulling from multiple sources delivered with perfect grammar and personalized to your exact request. Very nice.
It will of course reduce the need for people to figure stuff out. Why figure something out when we can ask the allmighty AI?
It will remove some of the incentive to share what we figure out. Why share your ideas and discoveries when nobody will read it anyway? They'll just ask an AI (which has been trained on your ideas, but can express them better - or atleast with better grammar).
Very soon, the web will no longer be a place for communities to arise around common interests, but instead simply a network of tightly guarded databases of data that is accessed only by AI (which will be our entry points).
The World Wide Web has ended, killed by AI.