@[url=https://anticapitalist.party/users/Angle]Angle🖇[/url] No, the anthropomorphizing is strong from the first sentence: "the idea of AI taking over the world". This is assigning intrinsic goals to AI systems that they currently don't have. They are prompt processors. And I would argue AI providers have already taken over the world using AI, just not in the way these profoundly misled people gush over at length. But the fact they are so taken with AI Doomerism is a clear sign of this happening. An entire cohort of the most educated people on the planet is currently losing their mind over what still is a fantasy in the current technological landscape that requires several assumption leaps that aren't guaranteed at all.
Interestingly, I still refuse to voluntarily interact with these natural-language-based systems in part because I'm culturally very close to this cohort and I don't trust myself not to succumb to the same misleading anthropomorphizing they are all guilty of. It isn't the first time in history either. Apparently zoology research on parrots has been stymied because we expected birds using human natural language to reason like humans as well, see: https://mastodon.social/@mcc/117373332856349825
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