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I don't. Most of the tech labelled 'AI' today is only good at stuff humans are so dogshit at, we find any degree of precision, nonlateral learning, absolute goal-driven decision-making or processing power at all overwhelming.

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The sorts of systematic errors made by those systems are slightly different to the ones made by humans, but not necessarily smart.

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Ted Heistman

@TedHeistman

Mar 30, 2019

There is nothing more terrifying to me than the Spectre of AI. I am a human being. I reserve to right to be ruled by my human foibles. I support terrorism against rule by AI

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I can picture it making many people's jobs unbelievably shitty, alienated and disconnected from their understanding of reality.

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Strongly agreed. I've worked in linguistic ML development for two years-ish. I am not a linguist, nor a statistician, nor a software engineer. It seems very obvious from this vantage that the ML work going on in critical systems will fuck. shit. up.

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Yes, my point was exactly in transposing the same grift employed in my relatively benign industry to something like the examples you're outlining here. People like me doing things above their expertise (if not their paygrade) and creating future "peacekeeper" robots et al.

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