The thing is, in both cases there is *no path* from the current technology (e.g. fused deposition modeling, or deep learning) to its hypothetical sci-fi evolution. What you're working on sounds superficially similar, and may well change the world. But it's a different thing.
@fchollet
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3D Printing Arguments More Convincing Than AGI Threat Narratives
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The 3D printing company would actually have a much more convincing argument here, because the mechanism through which matter replication brings infinite prosperity is easy to articulate, and so is the dire threat represented by grey goo. Whereas for AGI it is all left implicit
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Mundane Technology Hyped as Infinite Returns and Existential Threat
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In both cases, you have a useful but fairly mundane technology, and you pretend it will soon bring *infinite* returns (on the basis that it is depicted as such in sci-fi), while representing a major existential threat (same reasons).
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AI Companies and AGI: An Analogy with 3D Printing
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When companies that train deep learning models talk about AGI, it's as if a 3D printing company talked about how the next generation of the technology was going to bring universal abundance by enabling arbitrary matter replication — if we can avoid the grey goo scenario
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LLMs as a Solution to Poor Language-Based User Experience
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You could say that LLMs are a general way to fix bad UX in human systems that use language as their interface. Of course, in a better world, this would be fixed via user-friendly online forms instead.
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LLMs for Document Boilerplate Generation: Solving User-Hostile System Interfaces
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One of the most valuable applications of LLMs: generate document boilerplate for you (e.g. an official letter). It's a UX improvement: the reason this is a problem that needs solving in the first place is that so many human systems have user-hostile interfaces.
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ML Deployment and Productivity Stagnation Over the Past Decade
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For all the talk about ML destroying jobs, productivity had been improving fast long before we used any ML, and over the past 10 years we went from "very little ML" to to "ML deployed everywhere" and productivity stayed stagnant
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AI Deployment and Productivity Plateau: A Coincidental Irony
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I know it's pure coincidence and not causal, but it's ironic that productivity began to plateau right after the current wave of AI started getting deployed
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AI is not an alien wave, just computers doing more
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Unlike what you might think from the media coverage, "AI" is not an alien wave of change crashing on the shores of human civilization. It's a bunch of people making computers do more stuff.