There are GREAT dangers from people who use powerful AI models

I expected lower, a lot lower

...starting long before the release of chat gpt
Somehow, I always knew that I was training a robot, and I judged it to be a good thing

Pop music is another story.
The way it's constructed is exactly like AI would construct it.
Identify a popular trend or style, then hire a team of top professionals to copy it almost perfectly but include barely enough difference to avoid copyright lawsuits.
Then hire an attractive singer who can follow orders to be the front person. If they can't actually sing, apply autotune.
It's artless industrial product.
People will continue to make music, it's an important part of who we are.
Talentless weasels will continue using every trick they can think of to make money.
I hope this is a short lived fad with massive backlash

Given the diminishing use of cash, I expect other coins to disappear in the future

will lose my business

...that ever increasing compute power will be needed for future AI
This reminds me of the old military saying that generals plan to fight the last war
One efficient algorithm changes everything
One different processing approach like analog hybrids or bio hybrids changes everything
The future is becoming increasingly unpredictable

Meta wants to misuse AI tech to create fake friends who will likely try to sell you stuff
He needs to work on AI that can help us solve previously intractable problems in science, engineering, medicine, etc

...in the olympics of bad ideas
Run Windows apps in a browser?
This might work for trivial stuff, but I can't imaging running serious software like this and having it run even close to acceptably
High end CAD? Video editing? Digital audio workstation? Scientific simulation? in a browser?
This is silly beyond belief

This is the problem
Armies of Vetocrats whose only job is to say no
And even bigger armies of NIMBYs and their lawyers
Meanwhile, Chinese companies can build stuff
And yeah, they aren't perfect. The term Tofu Dreg (exceptionally poor construction) comes to mind
There was once a time when it was easier to build stuff in the US
And it's way worse in the EU

Developing AI to create fake "friends" who try to sell you stuff is bad, really bad

...progress can only be made by using massive and ever increasing computing power
One efficient algorithm could change everything

It's fashion and pop culture that happens to use a bit of tech

In practice, translation is difficult and more development will be needed before AI can do it really right
As usual, companies afflicted by FOMO are deploying immature tech so that they can tell shareholders that they have an AI strategy

It should not be seen as a race to be won
We should not be restricting access to tech for the Chinese
The tech should all be open source
Cooperation is better than competition
If the tech is available to all, it will prevent the abuses that can occur if the tech is owned by monopolists or governments

Of course, none of this will happen, the insane race will continue