I'm starting to think the "disconnect" coming from the so-called "AI experts", is more profound than even this article is claiming. They don't even seem to think that laying off sizeable chunks of the working population is going to have a negative impact on the economy. That's fucking bizarre.

Related - https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-fucking-piledrive-you-if-you-mention-ai-again/

We have a few key things that a grifter does not have, such as job stability, genuine friendships, and souls. What we do not have is the ability to trivially switch fields the moment the gold rush is over, due to the sad fact that we actually need to study things and build experience.

And then some absolute son of a bitch created ChatGPT, and now look at us. Look at us, resplendent in our pauper's robes, stitched from corpulent greed and breathless credulity, spending half of the planet's engineering efforts to add chatbot support to every application under the sun when half of the industry hasn't worked out how to test database backups regularly.

There was a connection? I never got past the 404 error.

Between AI stockholders and everyone else you mean?

Oh the guys selling snake oil think it's the best thing since sliced bread.

For some working in tech, the AI backlash has come as a surprise. AI leaders have focused on managing the possibility of Artificial General Intelligence, or AGI — a theoretical form of AI superintelligence that could perform any task a human could do and think for itself. But everyday folks are more concerned about AI’s impact on their paycheck and whether or not their power bills will go up as energy-hungry data centers are built.