And if you believe that, you have given up on reality. Well. You would be in bad but large company. Most people never get a real understanding what reality is.

Sounds like Fox News to me, or comparable.

The US always points fingers because accepting responsibility and looking at facts is not something generally done there. Just look at the clown they elected as their current leader.

The scientific consensus is that we do not know enough and that this is not a 50/50 thing, but more like 99% that we will make things worse without exactly understanding what to do.

Bill Gates is one of the really big assholes out there that did massive, massive damage to the world.

And a really dumb one makes a statement. Fascinating.

Here is a fact: Humans and predecessors have only be around for the current "cool" period, actually a bit shorter. For 99.96% of the existence of the planet there were no humans and that is where you have to look for those "hotter" times.

I am willing to sell you an empty cardboard box for $1M and a claim that it is a great QC on top of that. Basically as powerful as any real-world QC out there, so you are getting a real bargain!

Get a QC that is more powerful than my 40 year old BASIC programmable pocket calculator first. At the current pace, that is several centuries in the future.

This will go for a while. But not long. Because even with the pathetic-level of car insurance you need in the US, insurances will not have it and premiums for robotic cars will be orders of magnitude lower and then the hate and revenge fueled primitives will simply seem themselves ignored.

Society accepts about 45k deaths from avoidable car crashes per year in the US. Robotic cars will have far lower numbers per distance travelled than human drivers. It just takes a bit of getting used to the idea, but the naysayers really have noting. Or rather a lot less than nothing.

My guess is that may be an improvement.

Interesting. I have never felt any desire to "escape from freedom", directly or indirectly, but if most people feel that way, then this AI hype makes a lot of sense, as do the previous ones.

You are what is called an "enabler" or also a "useful idiot". You make evil possible by not caring or being a willing participant, while not actually being interested in doing evil yourself. Without people like you, Putin, Trump, Xi, etc. would just be funny fools that nobody listens to.

Matches my experience. A lot of consulting work, especially by big names is so bad that "AI", dumb and incapable as it may be, can do better.

What I have seen in work from the "Big Four" universally sucked. Better spend that higher cost of doing it with competent people...

Nice explanation of the problem (basically applies to tech work by the Big Four as well and I also have seen it from IBM): https://www.youtube.com/watch?...