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The Future Worth Building Is Human

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Re: The Future Worth Building Is Human

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Post by chrisweekly »

aledevv wrote: post #24

> Artificial intelligence can do more every day, but deciding what it should do is up to us > For artificial intelligence to benefit from distributed knowledge, it must itself be distributed. I wish to highlight these two important concepts, with which I fully agree. Artificial intelligence must enable all of humanity to excel and realize its full potential; it must not be used for the purposes of war, economic compe…

> "[AI] must not be used for the purposes of war, economic competition, or gaining dominance over others"

Unfortunately, human nature being what it is, this seems extraordinarily unlikely.

Re: The Future Worth Building Is Human

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Post by bitwize »

whywhywhywhy wrote: post #15

Why would you call your company Thinking Machines if you believe this, by calling them that you're already framing them as replacing the human act of thinking. Feels like they appropriated the name first, then pivoted ideologically to differentiate themselves from everyone else.

What's super cringe is that there already was a company called Thinking Machines, which built the Connection Machine supercomputer. The CM was featured in the movie Jurassic Park and had a network fabric for its CPUs co-designed by Richard Feynman.

This is yet another techbro outfit (although founded by a techsis) necromancing the name of the former supercomputer company. It's as if OpenAI decided to call itself Symbolics for the associations with that name.

Re: The Future Worth Building Is Human

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Post by gizajob »

numeri wrote: post #22

Seems to echo (but in a watered down form) many of the ideas in https://gwern.net/guardian-angel , which gave me a lot to think about last week

First: we had AI nothing Now: we have an AI manifesto Soon: maybe even some kind of AI product if we can think of one.

Re: The Future Worth Building Is Human

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Post by gizajob »

Glandalf wrote: post #21

Thinking Machines is back? Or is this a jaded attempt to use the brand for cache?

So unoriginal that they didn’t even realise the history of Thinking Machines and that usage when they scrambled around for any kind of name after leaving OpenAI to suck on the nipple of venture capital with ideas at the level of GitHub freebies.

Re: The Future Worth Building Is Human

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Post by gizajob »

whywhywhywhy wrote: post #16
brk wrote: post #8

I guess we are recycling company names now? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking_Machines_Corporation (I know, Corp vs. Lab).

So weird to re-use the name of something so iconic.

It’s not weird if you don’t comprehend the history of AI before coming up with your brilliant new take for a productless AI startup.

Re: The Future Worth Building Is Human

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Post by wartywhoa23 »

Davidzheng wrote: post #25
whywhywhywhy wrote: post #15

Why would you call your company Thinking Machines if you believe this, by calling them that you're already framing them as replacing the human act of thinking. Feels like they appropriated the name first, then pivoted ideologically to differentiate themselves from everyone else.

To add to others, thinking was never only a human act

But no other species were fed up with thinking as much as humans to come up with this brilliant way to commit mental suicide by succumbing to their own brainchild.

Re: The Future Worth Building Is Human

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Post by parineum »

Fricken wrote: post #30

We power AI with methane because it's a powerful greenhouse gas. That's because the future worth destroying is human. If it wasn't we wouldn't be destroying it, duh.

It's a good thing we're using that methane to power AI instead of releasing it into the atmosphere, right?

Re: The Future Worth Building Is Human

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Post by nativeit »

chrisweekly wrote: post #41
aledevv wrote: post #24

> Artificial intelligence can do more every day, but deciding what it should do is up to us > For artificial intelligence to benefit from distributed knowledge, it must itself be distributed. I wish to highlight these two important concepts, with which I fully agree. Artificial intelligence must enable all of humanity to excel and realize its full potential; it must not be used for the purposes of war, economic compe…

> "[AI] must not be used for the purposes of war, economic competition, or gaining dominance over others" Unfortunately, human nature being what it is, this seems extraordinarily unlikely.

Its likelihood is moot. It’s happening every day at this point.
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