Of course, as usual, pro-AI people’s only argument is a hypothetical, what-if scenario. If AI, specifically LLMs, are so great, how come it’s been 5 years and they haven’t meaningfully contributed to a cure for anything? Fundamentally it’s the same bullshit capitalists have been repeating for the last 100 years. Capitalism is rapidly destroying the entire planet, and we’re on track to reach a mass extinction event before the end of the century, but their argument is usually among the lines of: “Well yes, but what if we innovate a groundbreaking technology that will save us all in a few years?” It’s been 100 years and no such technology is even remotely close to being theoretically possible, just like LLMs aren’t anywhere close to being helpful in anything useful.