As a persistent critic of AI hype, I should be glad for backlash. A new wave of Important Thinkpieces from Famous Pundits say AI is impossible, we don’t need to worry about it, etc.
Most are riddled with glaring illogic, false analogies, motivated reasoning, & factual errors
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Even setting facts aside, “We don’t know for sure that an AI apocalypse is possible even in principle” is an astonishingly bad argument for ignoring the hypothetical danger. Finding myself way more sympathetic to Singularitarian doomsayers than previously.
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I mess around with unsupervised learning, wouldn't disagree with much of the above, and remember seeing the same twaddle around "Quant" finance. Then folks were too frightened to admit that they didn't understand, and the snake-oil boys found rich pickings. Artificial Ignorance?
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