One of the great shames of the enchantment with A.I. is the narrowness of ambition it instills. There are other enchantments to be had in relationships, in nature, in beauty, in creativity. In a commodity-first culture like ours, those are always going to be harder sells than the release of the next piece of software.
What would it mean to set our goals beyond the realm of this kind of technological mastery?
This is no simple shift, not least because the ways in which our bodies and minds are at once focused on and entangled with A.I. and its dreams.
With time, A.I. seems likely to become ever more fundamental, addictive and intrinsic to our lives.
Read more | NEW YORK TIMES