Tfw I take AI too seriously and explain it too clearly so nobody even gets madhttps://twitter.com/vgr/status/1014307742624780288 …
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Have a sufficient number of the AI people seen it yet?
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I didn’t know!
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I was at a conference a couple weeks ago and many hallway conversation ended with “but of course no one really knows why these these systems work, or we’d also be able to explain <fill in the blank>” My impression is lots of people are tinkering while tinkering is productive.
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Yes… I get irritated when I’m pretty sure I can figure out why they work, and that I could teach other people to do this too. It’s dumb to be irritated about this, rather than offering to help, however!
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Don't know about obvious (it's the sort of argument you evaluate on solidity rather than obviousness). Coming from the adjacent field of control theory which does in fact obsess over the science/math bits of the domain (convergence/stability, new interestingness) it seemed solid
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I think if you want to truly undermine current AI discourse, you have no real option other than to aim a broadside at Bostrom
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1/2 You missed out on a chance to invoke Sri. Kurzweil. In a parallel universe I might want to write a similar article about cognitive science, a field with far less hype and fewer public successes.
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2/2 however, seeing as how a field with science in its name has devolved into feuding factions, I think both Cog Sci and AI need to see themselves as sub fields of knowledge design
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