Noam Chomsky: AI isn't coming for us all, you idiots
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Re: Noam Chomsky: AI isn't coming for us all, you idiots
#2"The concept that these AIs will take over the world is, with that absolute lack of human-like understanding of how the world works, impossible."
Noam Chomsky
Re: Noam Chomsky: AI isn't coming for us all, you idiots
#3And what does Noam think a human does from the moment his eyes open and the amniotic fluid is drained from his ears? Humans gorge on hundreds of terabytes of data until they reach around puberty. Oh. But it's squishy chemical signals, not gold scratchings on glass. Oh well that's different.
Re: Noam Chomsky: AI isn't coming for us all, you idiots
#4Noam Chomsky is fascinating to read if you're a 14 year old anarcho socialist like I was. His self-contradictory and confused opinions about the future highlight the fact that he's basically an ancient malcontent who's eked out his living trying to form an unsuccessful apparatus to do exactly what he claims to despise, i.e. lay out thought patterns for a group of followers who in his case never seem to materialize any power or wealth. (The secret is, they all consider him irrelevant after they get out of high school).
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#5"The concept that these AIs will take over the world is, with that absolute lack of human-like understanding of how the world works, impossible." Noam Chomsky
Hmm. Thinking not like a human would help it avoid and exploit the mental traps humans have. We might not even know they've taken over.
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#6And what does Noam think a human does from the moment his eyes open and the amniotic fluid is drained from his ears? Humans gorge on hundreds of terabytes of data until they reach around puberty. Oh. But it's squishy chemical signals, not gold scratchings on glass. Oh well that's different.
I would say humans are pretty good at pattern matching, and thinking of my brain as a "statistical engine" has a lot of intuitive appeal. We are always piecing together an understanding of a scene based on imperfect data.
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#7Well if we're going to appeal to authority on AI, you can choose Chomsky...
or Altman, Hinton, Bengio, and Demis Hassabis...
Re: Noam Chomsky: AI isn't coming for us all, you idiots
#8Well if we're going to appeal to authority on AI, you can choose Chomsky... or Altman, Hinton, Bengio, and Demis Hassabis...
I'd even say Chomsky's authority worth has been going down the drain lately
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#10"The concept that these AIs will take over the world is, with that absolute lack of human-like understanding of how the world works, impossible." Noam Chomsky
Hmm. Thinking not like a human would help it avoid and exploit the mental traps humans have. We might not even know they've taken over.
You might like Metal Gear Solid if this idea appeals to you.