Everyone Is Wrong About AI Except Me
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Everyone Is Wrong About AI Except Me
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#2Book ad.
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#3Book ad.
No, it’s a blog post on a web page which also has a book ad.
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#4Book ad.
You can just skip the clearly marked ad bit and read the rest of it. Jason Pargin makes a lot of good content on different channels, and throws in a book plug here and there. Doesn't diminish the quality of his writing in any way.
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#6> This is why warnings of disruption and doom will ring hollow with the public, you’re just promising adventure.
The desires of the public don't enter into it. Like all matters of consequence, the people who control the economy and the government have decided this is happening and didn't take the opinion of the public into consideration.
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#7> Not only is the populace primed to treat artificial intelligence tools as living peers, they’ve been trained to hate or dismiss anyone who doesn’t
This doesn’t meet my personal experience, but curious to hear if others see something different! The prevailing opinion in the UK at least seems to be that it’s some non-living magical tool assistant.
As this assumption seems to be the basis of the article, I’m not sure on its validity.
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#8> This is why warnings of disruption and doom will ring hollow with the public, you’re just promising adventure. The desires of the public don't enter into it. Like all matters of consequence, the people who control the economy and the government have decided this is happening and didn't take the opinion of the public into consideration.
Well TPTB are actively shaping this opinion, per the article.
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#9This post makes a critical error. It is talking about sci-fi AI. Artificial Consciousness.
What we have is, while useful for many things (with proper constraints), just prediction engines that behave like intelligence. Generating a sentence when specifically asked to do so is a far cry from independently pondering over your existence then picking up the God of Thunder's hammer.
If anything, the public has been primed to hate AI as we have it now. CEOs are blaming it for mass scale layoffs. Media executives are using it so recklessly they face legal action. Data centers (already an issue for years for environmental impact and noise pollution) are being even more aggressively pushed on communities who don't want them. And the Silicon Valley upper crust are, to sell their AI products, embracing the worst views and uses of them.
AI can be ethical and useful, if we want it to be. But that is not how it is being sold. Increasingly, the public is aligning against it's use. This blog post badly misses that point.
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#10AI is truly the dumbest technology to emerge in my lifetime.