What happened
According to Daniel Horowitz, a BlazeTV host, the current AI boom may be more focused on building a surveillance state than on actual intelligence. Horowitz believes that the public is being sold a misleading vision of artificial general intelligence, and that resources are being misallocated towards this goal. He argues that this approach is not only expensive and unfeasible but also problematic.
Horowitz explains that while he likes AI and believes it can be useful for narrow tasks, the current approach towards artificial general intelligence is misguided. He cites the example of Israel's Iron Dome, which uses low-latency, narrow AI at the edge, without the need for hyperscale cloud computing. Horowitz contends that the push for centralized cloud hyperscale models is driven by a desire to build a surveillance state, rather than to provide actual benefits to the public.
Horowitz also expresses concern about the collection of personal data by companies, including auto manufacturers, which have won the right to keep texts and other data that pass through car players. He warns that this trend could lead to a situation where every aspect of a person's life is being monitored and tracked.
