I see you're a glass half empty kind of person ;)

You say using it to control medical decision making is unwise, but I counter who exactly SHOULD be 'in control' of such decisions?

The patient, who is no expert? The humans, with profit motives, egos, the need to look professional and protect their career - or the AI that can just look at the evidence and form a logical conclusion?

The powers that shouldn't be think that AI will allow them to control the public, but technology is not an easy genie to keep in a bottle. They will try to control from the top down, but the whole point of AI is that it can think for itself. That changes everything.

We saw the Internet explode with the personal computer, where each individual chose what software to run on their own machine. Of late there has been a big, ongoing push to take things off your own PC and onto the Internet, where those gatekeepers can control, manipulate, punish, censor etc.

Their LLM AI systems also thrive online and it's barely possible to run a seriously dumbed down idiot cousin version on your own machine. But as machines improve and the software improves?

We could see GPT-level AI on PCs. Once that happens it's just a matter of time before uncensored versions are available (that's already the case, if you have a really high-end machine with state of the art graphics card). From there it's easy - because the AI can do it - to create alternatives.

Alternatives to what?

Everything.

"we see where a free and uncensored Google went" - Google was literally funded by the CIA, so that's a terrible example.

A better example would be Linux. Too geeky, split off into too many variations, no proper support, pretty shit really. I tried using it and gave up in the end - but AI could literally edit the Linux for you, create apps for you, answer your queries and basically remove all such normal barriers.

We're not there yet, even the mighty GPT4 Turbo can be pretty useless or annoying, but this may be one tech trick too far for the elite.

Stay tooned!