A more apt comparison is probably atomic energy or the internet. If AI had no utility like smoking, you could make that comparison. Once we knew how little upside there was to smoking it was easy to ban, but a billion+ people still do it. Until AI provides no benefit for whatever reason, it will be used.
Yeah if something is important enough that I need an interpreter instead of just fumbling through it with my bad second language skills, it will be a human. Things like that require understanding nuance and context and being able to say "sorry I didn't get that" so that they get it right.
They are talking about $200 pro tiers for the good models. The only way I will still be using them is on a pay per token basis for really important or time consuming stuff where I can justify the spend. Certainly not worth it just as a Google search where I don't have to sort through the results myself.
Sure, but a lot of times they go hand and hand, at least to a point. As someone who's lived half his life in the US and half in Europe, I can say that Europe is a lot more equal and a far larger proportion of people have a good quality of life here even though the US is richer overall.
A more apt comparison is probably atomic energy or the internet. If AI had no utility like smoking, you could make that comparison. Once we knew how little upside there was to smoking it was easy to ban, but a billion+ people still do it. Until AI provides no benefit for whatever reason, it will be used.