Not really. AI has proved very effective at winning Chess, Jeopardy and Go, but it has done very little in the grand scheme to replace stuff that humans do. In the near- to medium-term it's mainly low-hanging fruit like search engine optimization that's at risk of replacement.
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Replying to @anti_minotaur @Outsideness and
I hate these discussions we're expected to choose between saying AGI isn't possible and GI is perfectly measurable, reducible to game winning etc. the fact that AI that does these things isn't good at anything else means Nick is, concretely, wrong about what intelligence is.
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Replying to @baroquespiral @anti_minotaur and
either that, or the whole paradigm of "AI in a lab" is mistaken.
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Replying to @cyborg_nomade @baroquespiral and
which I take is Land's larger point: AI is simply Capital at work. things like AlphaZero are parts of an ongoing automation trend, not its final triumph.
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Replying to @cyborg_nomade @baroquespiral and
and I think something like AlphaZero could be applied to, say, corporate processes and/or trading in order to automate a huge chunk of the economy.
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Replying to @cyborg_nomade @baroquespiral and
Oh yes, let's apply board game logic to economy and beyond. What can go wrong, maybe just a few charlatans get caught, but the rest will be thriving.
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Replying to @NegarestaniReza @baroquespiral and
absolutely see no reason why a corporate process couldn't be seen as a very simple board game
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Replying to @cyborg_nomade @NegarestaniReza and
Corporate affect is an important and under-studied area...
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Replying to @NegarestaniReza @cyborg_nomade and
My being available for consulting work in this area is the *purest* of pure coincidences.
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I don't doubt it.
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Replying to @NegarestaniReza @cyborg_nomade and
Ooh, you cynic (in the lay sense)!
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