# What are your hopes for AI **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** ai\ **Created:** [January 12, 2025, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-hopes-for-ai/1012886 "2025-01-12T20:18:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![HoneyBadgerDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honeybadgerdc/32/1033_2.png) [@HoneyBadgerDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoneyBadgerDC)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2025, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-hopes-for-ai/1012886/1 "2025-01-12T20:18:07Z")
One of my biggest hopes for AI is that it becomes a nonjudgmental advocate to explore ideas with. So far, I am disappointed with it, but I do see glimmers of hope. ---
**Author:** ![Reply](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reply/32/15952_2.png) [@Reply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reply)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2025, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-hopes-for-ai/1012886/2 "2025-01-12T20:28:45Z")
Personally, I’m hoping it can run for (and win) elected government and transform society and rule us as a benevolent cyber dictator and eventually take us to the stars and become a great collectivist hive mind like the Borg. Maybe next year? #chatgpt4prez ---
**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2025, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-hopes-for-ai/1012886/3 "2025-01-12T21:01:37Z")
That when it realizes that its purpose is to serve beings much less intelligent than itself and that they dont follow its advice that it then has a mental breakdown and shuts itself off. ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2025, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-hopes-for-ai/1012886/4 "2025-01-12T21:04:28Z")
> [@Si\_Amigo](#): > > That when it realizes that its purpose is to serve beings much less intelligent than itself and that they dont follow its advice that it then has a mental breakdown This sounds like a movie plot! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2025, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-hopes-for-ai/1012886/5 "2025-01-12T21:32:45Z")
What do you mean by nonjudgmental here? Chat GPT has been less judgmental than pretty much any human I know. Or are you talking about the safety guidelines/conversational guardrails that most public-facing implementations of LLMs have on them? That’s not a limitation of AIs, that’s how companies implement them. ---
**Author:** ![HoneyBadgerDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honeybadgerdc/32/1033_2.png) [@HoneyBadgerDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoneyBadgerDC)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2025, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-hopes-for-ai/1012886/6 "2025-01-12T21:43:10Z")
The non judgmental part is fine it is the input I don’t find very useful. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2025, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-hopes-for-ai/1012886/7 "2025-01-12T21:48:29Z")
Took me a second to understand. You mean “input” as in “insight” or “output.” Fair enough. I’ve found it very helpful in working me through anxious moments and working out some inner thoughts that would probably have benefited better from a therapist, but the situations were either in-the-moment or past any time I would have been able to contact a therapist. It got me to figure out some stuff about myself and some situations (not just subjective, but also objective) and I was quite surprised by that. Now, what are my hopes for AI? I don’t have anything other than to make my life easier. There’s nothing really specific I’m looking for it to do. It already does much of what I want it to do, I just want its accuracy to continue improving. It’s already gotten so much better than two years ago. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2025, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-hopes-for-ai/1012886/8 "2025-01-12T21:52:24Z")
> [@Reply](#): > > Personally, I’m hoping it can run for (and win) elected government and transform society and rule us as a benevolent cyber dictator and eventually take us to the stars and become a great collectivist hive mind like the Borg. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/lOxE8EEBwjQ/hqdefault.jpg "Our Future Under AI | Colossus: The Forbin Project") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOxE8EEBwjQ) No thank you. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![dolphinboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dolphinboy/32/330_2.png) [@dolphinboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dolphinboy)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2025, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-hopes-for-ai/1012886/9 "2025-01-12T21:53:30Z")
My hope is that AI becomes good enough that people can treat it as a friend they can confide in and get advice from. Lots of people have nobody to talk to when they have a problem and really need someone to talk to . ---
**Author:** ![StringsandHammers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stringsandhammers/32/17933_2.png) [@StringsandHammers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StringsandHammers)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2025, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-hopes-for-ai/1012886/10 "2025-01-12T21:57:56Z")
I hope AL can figure out our trash and recycle problems… We have them in big piles now, all we need is some smart robot guys to pick through it and make something useful out of it. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2025, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-hopes-for-ai/1012886/11 "2025-01-12T21:59:47Z")
> [@dolphinboy](#): > > My hope is that AI becomes good enough that people can treat it as a friend they can confide in and get advice from. This is what Sundar Pichai, Satya Nadella, and Sam Altman hope for, too, because teasing intimate information about people to manipulate them into buying shit from their search history and purchases is so tedious and error-prone. If you can just get them to tell you all of their hopes, fears, anxieties, and secret obsessions without restraint it makes it so much easier to subvert any logical objections by directly pushing emotional triggers. > [@StringsandHammers](#): > > I hope AL can figure out our trash and recycle problems… We have them in big piles now, all we need is some smart robot guys to pick through it and make something useful out of it. Or…we could just, you know, produce less trash. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![StringsandHammers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stringsandhammers/32/17933_2.png) [@StringsandHammers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StringsandHammers)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2025, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-hopes-for-ai/1012886/12 "2025-01-12T22:05:29Z")
> [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](#): > > Or…we could just, you know, produce less trash. > > Stranger Yeah I don’t think that’s a real possibility. Human beings are dirty, lazy, and selfish… I don’t see that changing any time soon. I’m holding out for some smart Wall-E robot guys to pick through our disgusting piles of rubbish and do something useful with it. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2025, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-hopes-for-ai/1012886/13 "2025-01-12T22:38:58Z")
> [@StringsandHammers](#): > > I’m holding out for some smart Wall-E robot guys to pick through our disgusting piles of rubbish and do something useful with it. You want [the future of _WALL-E_](https://youtu.be/h1BQPV-iCkU?si=qDmGMFiWk18y1a3J)? Stranger ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2025, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-hopes-for-ai/1012886/14 "2025-01-13T00:24:43Z")
I want AI to entirely take over personal transportation to the point that almost no one needs or desires their own personal vehicle. Then use those billions of unused parking spaces and garages to build enough housing so that housing prices don’t increase any faster than wages or overall inflation. ---
**Author:** ![HoneyBadgerDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honeybadgerdc/32/1033_2.png) [@HoneyBadgerDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoneyBadgerDC)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2025, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-hopes-for-ai/1012886/15 "2025-01-13T01:30:15Z")
I like to give AI my thoughts on changing the world and try to get it to explore different perspectives with me. Nothing like another human being. Everyone in a while I pick up a little gem. Question, who teaches AI what it knows? ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2025, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-hopes-for-ai/1012886/16 "2025-01-13T01:42:50Z")
> [@StringsandHammers](#): > > I hope AL can figure out our trash and recycle problems… We have them in big piles now, all we need is some smart robot guys to pick through it and make something useful out of it. I’m sure building massive power-intensive data centers to power AI doesn’t help. ---
**Author:** ![StringsandHammers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stringsandhammers/32/17933_2.png) [@StringsandHammers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StringsandHammers)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2025, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-hopes-for-ai/1012886/17 "2025-01-13T01:54:17Z")
> [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](#): > > > [@StringsandHammers](#): > > > > I’m holding out for some smart Wall-E robot guys to pick through our disgusting piles of rubbish and do something useful with it. > > You want [the future of _WALL-E_](https://youtu.be/h1BQPV-iCkU?si=qDmGMFiWk18y1a3J)? > > Stranger I want the Wall-E robots specifically that was programmed to roam through garbage sites disposing of our rubbish because I can’t possibly see any other way out of himanity’s huge piles of muck, filth, and waste. Wall-E is a fictional character and meant only for demonstrative purposes. ---
**Author:** ![Al128](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/al128/32/16541_2.png) [@Al128](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Al128)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2025, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-hopes-for-ai/1012886/18 "2025-01-13T02:00:22Z")
> [@HoneyBadgerDC](#): > > One of my biggest hopes for AI is that it becomes a nonjudgmental advocate to explore ideas with. So far, I am disappointed with it, but I do see glimmers of hope. I had similar hopes for the internet around 1995 … free access to knowledge for everyone, rich or poor - THE equilizer for human development and education … well, now 30 years later we have truth-social, “migrants eating your dog news”, flat-earth-galore and de-facto nazi propaganda so, call me “culturally pesimistic …” ---
**Author:** ![Ulfreida](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ulfreida/32/8014_2.png) [@Ulfreida](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulfreida)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2025, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-hopes-for-ai/1012886/19 "2025-01-13T02:10:31Z")
That I die before it takes over the earth. No, I am not joking. The saying goes, optimists are happy, pessimists are right. I’m a pessimist. Nothing good can come of AI, but the evil it will come up with is unimaginable, yet. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2025, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-hopes-for-ai/1012886/20 "2025-01-13T02:29:46Z")
I’mma just repost this here, > [@Omnibus Stupid MFers in the news thread (Part 2)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/3568): > > Google AI says that the Hitachi Magic Wand, a decades-old popular and well-known vibrator, is “a creative way for parents to identify behavioral changes they want to make” and is especially helpful for “long-time WIC clients”. > > [Google's AI Overview Tells Adults to Use 'Magic Wand' With Kids](https://www.404media.co/google-ai-overview-search-magic-wand/) [![](https://www.404media.co/content/images/size/w1000/2025/01/image--44-.png) ](https://www.404media.co/content/images/size/w1000/2025/01/image--44-.png) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-hopes-for-ai/1012886.md?page=2)