AI Exasperation

The only thing more prevalent in our news feeds lately than President Trump are articles and commentaries on AI, and most people I know are exasperated by both. I’ve seen people heave a big sigh, their countenance drooping when the subject of AI comes up. “Not AI!” They knew the subject would come up, but they didn’t want it to.
AI is poised to far surpass the invention of the printing press as our most significant and powerful technological innovation ever, and most of us have thrown up our hands and decided we don’t want to learn any more about it. “Stop! Enough! I know all I need to know!” But no, we are not learning fast enough.
The transformation we are about to face will be huge and unavoidable, like the fluctuations in our gravitational fields when lightning strikes nearby.
We hear this: “Kids use it to cheat!” “It tells me things that are wrong!” “Those Data Centers are causing the planet to implode!” and/or “Generative AI is taking jobs and destroying creativity!” And those are real problems that ingenious humans and AI will have to find ways to effectively ameliorate.
The thing is, we’re not going to reverse future history by complaining about it.
Proposed: We need to be having more AI discussions, not less.
For Instance:
Google’s Astra can see through a camera, understand the surroundings it’s looking at, perform tasks in real time, interact with objects, and instantly integrate input from text, images, audio, video, and sensory arrays by Multimodal Reasoning.
Astra is Latin for Star, and Google’s version is competing with all the other AI models, and there have been and will be more movies about the ferocity of that race. Still the name Astra is a solid marketing choice, implying the brightest new star on our horizon.
In the Near Future, AI will answer our questions, solve our problems, and, if we let it, take our actions for us!