No it's not. Just be honest with yourself and everyone else. You work on AI because it's cool, and fun, and it pays well. You do not care about world hunger and you don't care about any second order effects. Everyone would just be better off if you all just came out and said it.
I'm sure those millions of GPUs churning through Facebook posts, tweets, and random blog posts to generate the mother of all autocompletes will end world hunger, the answer is out there, we just need an algorithm to mix the My Little Pony fanfiction with the crackpot "unlimited free energy" blog in the right way! And I'm also sure these new productivity tools will be used to people can work less for more money instead of making generating more value the norm and cashing the profits at the top.
And then pink unicorns will come down from the sky and give us all candy and gifts.
These language models are more than just autocomplete. Palm-E uses them for robotic planning and control, toolformer uses them to make arbitrary API calls, and gpt4 can build websites from napkin drawings. You really can’t imagine how an LLM of that nature could be used to automate food production and distribution?
This technology is going to permeate all levels of the supply chain and drive down costs. Don’t bury your head in the sand too long or you might be part of those “costs” that are eliminated.
