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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker Aug 9

    Robotics pioneer Rodney Brooks (former MIT colleague) debunks 7 errors in AI hype: confusing AI with magic, assuming Moore's Law for everything, overattributing intelligence, Hollywood scenarios, underestimating hardware inertia, others.https://www.technologyreview.com/s/609048/the-seven-deadly-sins-of-ai-predictions/?utm_campaign=social_button&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_content=2018-08-08 …

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      1. Jonathan Wilkinson‏ @johnmusofficial Aug 9
        Replying to @sapinker

        @SamHarrisOrg sam?

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      1. Andrew Cutler‏ @AndrewCutler13 Aug 9
        Replying to @sapinker

        Somebody show this to @SamHarrisOrg

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      1. mike din‏ @mikeydin Aug 9
        Replying to @sapinker

        this all sounds like something an advanced AI would say though...

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      2. Michael Bates‏ @Michael__Bates Aug 9
        Replying to @sapinker

        I do hope you win the Nobel Prize for the Blank Slate one day, but you may simultaneously win some kind of Raspberry Award for your AI thinking. The article, as some say, is not even wrong.

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      3. Steve Green‏ @EstiviG Aug 9
        Replying to @Michael__Bates @sapinker

        Agree 100%. So, many of these bullet points seem like straw men. What public intellectual or scientist has expressed concern about a Terminator type scenario?

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      4. Blaise‏ @blaisepascal2nd Aug 10
        Replying to @EstiviG @Michael__Bates @sapinker

        The whole impending Singularity was a fad a few years ago

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      5. Michael Bates‏ @Michael__Bates Aug 10
        Replying to @blaisepascal2nd @EstiviG @sapinker

        I think the timing is really secondary to the fact that IT IS coming. Whether it's 20 years out or 100 doesn't change how profound it may be or the need for policy and planning now.

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      1. ValueCritic‏ @ValueCritic Aug 9
        Replying to @sapinker

        The problem isn't that we don't understand AI, but that we don't understand I. All I is AI.

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      1. HammerAvGud‏ @GudHammer Aug 9
        Replying to @sapinker

        Listening to Sam Harris opine about the dangers of AI, reminds me of fundamentalist Christians worrying about the effects of Satan in American politics

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      2. Sam Graybeal‏ @samgraybeal Aug 9
        Replying to @sapinker

        Much in the article rings true. Where's our sheets of graphene? Thorium powered engines? HOVERBOARDS????pic.twitter.com/rpqIXMSoWe

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      1. Alon Eisenberg‏ @EisenbergAlon Aug 10
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        Hofstadter has been saying the same thing (and very articulately) for years.

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      1. Ian Wilson‏ @YouAreDreaming Aug 9
        Replying to @sapinker

        AI is exciting, already we are seeing huge shifts in how AI integrates in our lives. Enjoying how AI is evolving engineering means some very interesting shifts in technology in our near future.

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      2. Alex Utopia‏ @alexutopia Aug 9
        Replying to @sapinker

        Moore's Law is just a snippet of what is going on. Exponential growth from simple to complex things is real. It applies not only to computers, but to all informational processes, human civilization, biology and the forming of the cosmos. And it won't be stopped by Brooks opinion.

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      3. Alex Utopia‏ @alexutopia Aug 9
        Replying to @alexutopia @sapinker

        ...vacuum tubes reached a limit and the paradigm jumped to transistors, the next paradigm-shift will happen soon. While the overall processes is continuing to make things exponentially smaller and more complex. Physics allows for this to go on for at least another 600 years.

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      2. Theodore Bolha‏ @TheodoreBolha Aug 9
        Replying to @sapinker

        When are we going to automate teachers?

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      3. Steve Green‏ @EstiviG Aug 9
        Replying to @TheodoreBolha @sapinker

        It’s already happening in China.

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      1. Nehemia Gershuni-Aylho‏Verified account @Nehemia_G Aug 10
        Replying to @sapinker

        Well, google CAN answer all of these questions, using AI.pic.twitter.com/sfMNYIDGdC

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      1. Milan Cirkovic‏ @MilanCirkovic3 Aug 10
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        I am certain that Simon Newcomb, lord Kelvin or some other clever guy of the 19th century similarly debunked 7 or 17 errors of the heavier-than-air-flight hype.

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