Honestly, in a purely technical sense, I do find it beautiful how you can take matrix multiplication and a shit-ton of data, and get a program that can talk to you, solve problems, and generate believable speech and imagery.
There are many complications arising from such a thing existing, and from what was needed to bring it into existence (and at the cost of whom), I'll never deny that. I just can't comprehend how someone can find the technical aspects repulsive in isolation.
It feels a lot like trying to convince someone that nuclear weapons are bad by defending that splitting an atom is akin to banging a rock against a coconut to split it in two.
There are many complications arising from such a thing existing, and from what was needed to bring it into existence (and at the cost of whom), I'll never deny that. I just can't comprehend how someone can find the technical aspects repulsive in isolation.
It feels a lot like trying to convince someone that nuclear weapons are bad by defending that splitting an atom is akin to banging a rock against a coconut to split it in two.