My lukewarm take for the day, and one in which I have absolutely zero skin in the game, is that the GoBots were superior to the Transformers.
(Emptying boxes and finding the odd artefact from my childhood.)
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Cory Doctorow offers up the most cogent take on AI, what precisely is wrong with how it’s used today, how the AI bubble will inevitably burst, and ways we can help that outcome happen sooner, and a future where AI can be a useful tool. It’s long, but it’s an important, useful piece.
AI is the asbestos in the walls of our technological society, stuffed there with wild abandon by a finance sector and tech monopolists run amok. We will be excavating it for a generation or more.
Same goes for all that “AI Safety” nonsense, that purports to concern itself with preventing an AI from attaining sentience and turning us all into paperclips. First of all, this is facially absurd. Throwing more words and GPUs into the word-guessing program won’t make it sentient. That’s like saying, “Well, we keep breeding these horses to run faster and faster, so it’s only a matter of time until one of our mares gives birth to a locomotive.” A human mind is not a word-guessing program with a lot of extra words.