This is the phenomenon I refer to as AI cosplay. To build the Final Computer, you have to think like the Final Computer! The risk comes not from the AI itself, but from the ideological ruthlessness of the people committed to building it, who are essentially believers in a cult
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It's the belief that all we need is sufficient data and compute power. I honestly don't understand the people I know in the field, who actually believe this. Even when I did my CS degree (90s) the professors made very clear that this was a bullshit proposition.
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“sufficient” is a very contextually dependent term here... Nonetheless, it’s still a bullshit proposition
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It's like making a car that can go 1000mph on a straight race track (domains like image recognition), seeing that it can't do highways without crashing (general intelligence), and saying 'maybe 2000mph fixes it' instead of recognizing that speed isn't the limiting factor anymore
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or "now we must straighten all the roads"
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"so can you build a computer that can parse text from an image?" "semi-consistently"
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how much do I have to donate to a Democratic campaign to never see pg in my feed again
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I won't lie. You'll need to make a lot of lifestyle changes
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just learnt today about the AI techno millennialists and the "Dark Enlightenment" https://andrewhickey.info/2019/07/24/the-cummings-of-the-ai-lord/ … https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Enlightenment …
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They don't think they're going to top out with Moore's law?
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