On the frustration of agreeing with everyone about AI

A developer reflects on the conflicting emotions surrounding AI, having experienced both the thrill of using a high-speed Chinese model and the nostalgia of working on artificial life 27 years ago, while acknowledging the potential for AI to cure diseases and optimize climate models.

Conversations about AI are febrile and have been for a while now. Everyone has different views. It’s frustrating for me because not only do I empathise with all of you, in some ways I have every major position in my mind. I find myself impossible, messed up. Niller-nally, retwixt, fragmented. I briefly used an open source agentic programming tool with 1000 tokens/second https://www.cerebras.ai/ of a top Chinese model. It was like a drug pumped straight into my veins. I worked on artificial life https://creatures.wiki/Francis Irving 27 years ago - we were trying to do the same at CyberLife, just much earlier. Creation can be beautiful, and helpful, warm and purposeful. There’s diseases to cure, climate models to optimise, software to make perfect for each person.