[srivmo]

> Nothing AI does wasn't possible before

Nothing any technology does wasn't NOT possible before that tech went mainstream. The point being tech saves time/cost and boosts productivity. For e.g. if you would have been able to find a webpage in an hour before, search made it easier to find that webpage. Similarly, AI synthesizes webpages and information for you.

That is the point of technology. If you could reach from point A to point B, using a bicycle, car, train or an aeroplane, each has its own use case at its own value and price point. Each such tech saves time/cost. To say that is is only a different modality, fails to capture the value add.

[eddythompson80]

Yes without a search engine it’s a very real possibility that I could not find a web. Without a phone I couldn’t reach a person faster than I could physically move in space. Without a space rocket, I couldn’t escape earth’s gravity. Without AI I couldn’t… I don’t know how to finish this sentence without having it be self referential. As in “without AI I couldn’t have used AI to do this”. What can it be?