Looks like a common knowledge moment happening. For over a decade people privately told me they agreed with me on superintelligence derangement syndrome, but surprisingly few were willing to be open about it. A switch has flipped.
This discussion between a Google engineer and their conversational AI model helped cause the engineer to believe the AI is becoming sentient, kick up an internal shitstorm and get suspended from his job. And it is absolutely insane. https://washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/06/11/google-ai-lamda-blake-lemoine/…
The reluctance has been similar to the reluctance to be openly critical of other cults like Scientology. It’s powerful and connected enough that if you’re in tech, there’s a social tax to disagreeing with them. Used to think they’re more benign. No longer certain of that.
Are you kidding me? People are constantly tripping over themselves in their rush to proclaim as loudly as possible that AI is fake. The ratio of people I see taking it seriously to those like you who dismiss it is like 1:10.