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Or, you know, they might actually know something about the subject? On a similar note, most physicists don't think particle colliders will cause mini black holes which will swallow the Earth, but the fear gets repeated by non-physicists.
Good satire; thought it was real until I got to “We don’t know how our AI systems work, we don’t know what they can do,” I look forward to the stupid phase of mistakes with AI. Because it surely has to be better than the past decade of free money devoted almost exclusively to advertising optimization and tightening of controls.
"Most AI researchers think good outcomes are more likely. This seems just blind faith, though" Or, you know, they might actually know something about the subject? On a similar note, most physicists don't think particle colliders will cause mini black holes which will swallow the Earth, but the fear gets repeated by non-physicists.
> I am not a Luddite. I have been wildly enthusiastic about science, technology, and intellectual and material progress since I was a kid. I have a PhD in artificial intelligence, and I find the current breakthroughs fascinating.
The same internet technology that empowers AI also empowers weird self-published stuff like this. The author should reflect on that.
I don't know what to make of this, though. This author, after some googling, seems to know a thing or two, but without any background on him while reading some of this he came off to me as a crackpot. I really hope AI doesn't have its Robert Malone.
If AI was capable of building physical things and carrying out physical tasks in the real world, no one would probably complain. But when AI decides to speak and create artwork, people lose their minds.
Because our miracle was for robots to do tedious tasks and humans enjoy creative work. But it turns out that the future will be the opposite.
The risk of building a gigantic machine (not in the literal sense) that is detrimental to humans is very real and I think that each time our societies are becoming _too_ organized or optimized we're also removing most of the individual freedom as a side effect.
Insane concentration of power is not a new phenomenon, but for sure this new tech could amplify/accelerate it.
But I don't see how we can avoid exploring this path, there is too much to learn.
The same internet technology that empowers AI also empowers weird self-published stuff like this. The author should reflect on that.
The two have absolutely nothing to do with each other.