I do not believe in the promised future of AI. In fact, I am closer to a Luddite in the AI world than a fanatic in favor of neural networks being our new overlords.
I think the average person stands to lose much more than they might gain from Artificial Intelligence.
As far as I can see, AI is not intelligent at all. It’s a massive calculator that can guess at words and numbers that ought to appear in certain orders and make a reasonable guess based on its set amount of input.
AI cannot create something new or novel. It can only present you with information (or forms of information) that are new to you. At its core, AI is still limited to purely mechanical operation. What is mechanical is not self-sustaining or self-reproducing. On the contrary, organic matter can do both.
When AI finds a way to bridge the gap and step from the mechanical world into the organic world, then I will be concerned. I do not, however, believe this will be possible and like all technology, it does not grow at the same speed for the same amount of time.
Progress in tech is non-linear. It ebbs and flows–and eventually hits a brick wall of diminishing returns. AI is nearly at its brick wall. It will become a useful tool for a select number of uses and we will look back at the early 2020s as a time when the world was sure we’d have flying cars just any day.