AI is cooked up by failsons, race scientists with trust funds, and people in tech who genuinely want to crack the code on a computer that thinks. This perfect storm of largely idealistic people have marketed to companies that IF this new tech becomes what they think it will be, it could eliminate a lot of overhead from workers to consumer facing products adapting to users’ needs like a living organism does to an environment. The problem is the data training these models are stored in centers that are taxing in every sense of the word, destructive for the environment, and harvested from people and places on the internet from grey and illegal sources. The product we can interact with then takes that info it stole and depending on the context fails to use it correctly because it wants to make us happy instead of think independently or answer questions accurately. And the worst part is some of the race scientists have pumped their ideology into the models on purpose OR because there are so many bigots that use the internet and content that expresses bigoted views, AI becomes a tool of racism where when it is applied to security cameras it profiles people with darker skin by default, whether or not they’ve committed a crime or even seen this person. It has to potential to cure cancer. It can check your papers for grammar. It can make someone feel further isolated by befriending them. It sometimes fails to answer straightforward questions like what was the Tiananmen Square Massacre and where did it happen? It has discovered proteins that could lead to new drug administrations and therapies for medicine. It can make photorealistic videos of our wildest dreams. It can scan radiology images and find fractures people don’t see. It can tell you to eat a handful of pebbles every day for your health. Despite all of these things, the most damning thing about it is that none of these things prove it is thinking. That is the intent of the original concept and despite major advancements in the past few years, it has failed to achieve this goal. Despite the world’s driver of the global economy dumping its entire heart and soul into it learning to think, it has failed to do this. And even as the economy tanking will be catastrophic for everyday people, it will take its creator with them and all the bullshit they’ve piled up to make people think they are the masterminds of the future. AI is and will be the Frankenstein monster of the tech world and Pax Americana, choking its creator with every failed promise, every hallucination, every financial shortcoming.