Sorry, I have another unasked for thought/metaphor about "AI", this time inspired by @futurebird 's posts :)

We tend to think of our big brain as the advantage, the thing that sets our species apart. But there are plenty of other smart species. Birds that solve puzzles. Insects that talk! With sign language and chemistry! How cool is that!

They seem to be pretty good at what they do, for their resource consumption.

What we do is be random, be bored, and be wrong in novel ways. That's what our big brain is for. Everything else can be done more efficiently.

We've known how to build ants for over half a century and we've trained birds for decades. They work.

Why would we want to burn the planet for a random, bored, wrong big brain.

We already have those. They suck. Aaand my boredom-suppressor has started kicking in I think, I better go back to making ants for money now.

To clarify: the big brain is not GenAI. GenAI is a loud parrot (@timnitGebru et al). The big brain is the idiotic goal of "Artificial general intelligence".