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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You can’t meaningfully evaluate prospects for AI without understanding enormous quantities of specific technical details. Pundits on both sides have utterly inadequate knowledge, and just express their emotional reactions to imagined outcomes in fictional scenarios.
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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 find both sides of the argument very questionable. On the one hand, I think the metaphysics of AI proponents is bad and sentience isn't in the cards any time soon. On the other, machines and code don't need to be sentient in order to be dangerous but probably not skynet danger
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