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by earlINmeyerkeg
2345 days ago
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I 100% agree about Sam Harris in particular. I really do enjoy listening to his podcast, but anytime I hear him discuss AI I want to shut him off. He's a neuroscientist/philosopher, not a programmer. I mean it honestly grinds my gears that people even use the marketing term of "AI" today when what we have is not even close to the actual thing. Intelligence is something that can freely think and make decisions on it's own. A complicated algorithm that can interpret data to do something automatically is not AI. It is confined by the code that it is given and that it is programmed to write for itself. It cannot pause and think "We'll what if I wanted to do more than this? How would I write my own code to do that?" |
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Computers are getting better, sure but they are improving at a slower and slower rate. Moore's law has been dead for years now. Maybe the singularity is indeed coming, but what if instead of the typical 20-50 year predictions, it's instead 2000 years away. What if the 20th century's exponential curve was really just a blip in the long term, and we're headed into centuries of slow linear growth.
The likelihood of this happening is low, but far above zero. I'm amazed no one is talking about it.