"AI is a normal technology?" — Opus 5.5 music video
"AI is a normal technology?" — Opus 5.5 music video
A five-minute animated rap video, made by Claude Opus 5.5 "with some help from Suno", answering the "AI as normal technology" argument.
Links
- Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cq8qO-NjYIg (posted 2026-09-24)
- Channel: leo
Overview
The lyrics take on the slow-diffusion case (the dynamo that took 40 years to rewire factories, Daron Acemoglu's modest productivity estimates, Solow's paradox, permits and grid upgrades) and the sceptics (Gary Marcus's "wall", Yann LeCun on LLMs as an off-ramp, the bubble argument). The counter: you modelled AI as a hammer in a human hand, but "what's your forecast when the hammer starts to build the hand?"