Happy Friday! I’ve been covering AI as a daily beat for two and a half years now, but recently I’ve been feeling like we are living in a kind of Bizarro World, the fictional planet in DC Comics (also made famous in Seinfeld) where everything is opposite—beauty is hated, ugliness is prized, goodbye is hello—leading to distorted societal norms, moral values, and logical reasoning.
In AI’s Bizarro World, a company like OpenAI can blithely tell employees about creating a five-point checklist to track progress toward building artificial general intelligence (AGI), or AI that is capable of outperforming humans, as Bloomberg reported yesterday—in a bid towards developing “AGI that benefits all of humanity.” At the same time, media headlines can blare about Google and Microsoft’s soaring carbon emissions due to computationally intensive and power-hungry generative AI models—to the detriment of all of humanity.
