I almost tweeted this last night, but putting AI on a list of failed predictions seems not-even-wrong to me. blog.samaltman.com/technology-pre
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When people said things like "heaver than air flight is impossible" that was negation of a well-posed, falsifiable proposition.
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So treating anti-Scary-AI positions as equivalent to denying heavier-than-air flight is a category error. You can't negate an ill-posed idea
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The right list on which to put "Scary AI" is a list of failed apocalyptic doomsday cult predictions, not failed tech predictions.
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for now anyway. Plus as in his recent NYT piece. We don't even know what real AI looks like mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/opiniona
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