What happens when AI is let out of *our* boxes?
Written by Travis Kellerman
wrote about the risk of having a rigid, paranoid tech philosophy and the risks of micro-managing our intelligent software. When AI can’t experiment, it fails to meet our expectations and the obscene amount of hype this time around. When complex systems (like crypto) can’t adapt, they fail.
There will be another AI winter unless we pull back our expectations (hard to do this late in the hype cycle) — or swallow our pride and fear, and let AI out of our box.
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