Is AI a life form? In his influential book "What Is Life?" published in 1948, Austrian physicist Erwin Schrodinger defined a life form as a system that maintains its internal order by drawing energy and order ("negative entropy") from its surroundings, resisting the natural tendency of physical systems toward increasing entropy (disorder). So, does AI meet these criteria? Frankly, hard to tell.
Behold capitalism’s ultimate triumph! Thanks to AI, its centuries-old obsession with maximizing efficiency by eliminating human labor costs may reach perfection: zero employees, zero labor costs, zero civilization, zero capitalism. The ultimate efficiency: eliminating yourself!
There's something particularly disgusting about AI billionaires exploiting the hopes of gravely-ill patients and their desperate families to inflate the greedy valuations of their firms and to evade regulation, with promises of cures!