If 'All Models Are Wrong,' Why Do We Give Them So Much Power?
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Re: If 'All Models Are Wrong,' Why Do We Give Them So Much Power?
#2Brian Christian here. Honored to be the guest on the Ezra Klein show this week and by Ezra’s kind words: "Brian Christian’s recent book The Alignment Problem is the best book on the key technical and moral questions of A.I. that I’ve read."
Happy to take any questions, etc., if folks are interested! AMA.
Re: If 'All Models Are Wrong,' Why Do We Give Them So Much Power?
#3Brian Christian here. Honored to be the guest on the Ezra Klein show this week and by Ezra’s kind words: "Brian Christian’s recent book The Alignment Problem is the best book on the key technical and moral questions of A.I. that I’ve read." Happy to take any questions, etc., if folks are interested! AMA.
Do you have a non-adwalled version of the article?
Re: If 'All Models Are Wrong,' Why Do We Give Them So Much Power?
#4Because even imperfect models that have true predictive ability are extremely useful. Hence the ".... and some models are less wrong than others".
Re: If 'All Models Are Wrong,' Why Do We Give Them So Much Power?
#5Brian Christian here. Honored to be the guest on the Ezra Klein show this week and by Ezra’s kind words: "Brian Christian’s recent book The Alignment Problem is the best book on the key technical and moral questions of A.I. that I’ve read." Happy to take any questions, etc., if folks are interested! AMA.
Do you have a non-adwalled version of the article?
Oh no, are you getting hit with an adwall? I’m able to open the following links in incognito windows with no trouble:
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/04/opinion/ezra-klein-podcas...?
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/04/podcasts/transcript-ezra-...
Re: If 'All Models Are Wrong,' Why Do We Give Them So Much Power?
#6Because some are useful...