The degree to which modern AI has given up on trying to understand tractable, thinking systems and just builds them by brute force is interesting. Our understanding of cognition hasn't improved even as we're able to build systems that have near-human performance in some areas.https://twitter.com/QuantaMagazine/status/1192107096604590082 …
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This has interesting consequences. One is the "money laundering for bias" issue, where machine systems you don't understand pick up on all sorts of latent patterns in the data you feed them. But my favorite is that it removes a favorite fantasy about recursive self-improvement
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Transhumanists have been obsessed for years with the nightmare of an AI that starts to recursively self-improve, and in a few hours takes over the world. They take it more seriously than my breezy phrasing of it implies. They have also learned to not talk about it in public
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Not talking about it in public was unfortunately a recent development. I'm glad the hysteria around "the singularity" has waned.
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It still guides people's actions in the field. Google pays Kurzweil a salary for something. And unfortunately I fear it just made them choose some secret cabal approach that removes public scrutiny from their brand of religious fundamentalism
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