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by teucris
1218 days ago
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The more I read, the more I feel like this is actually a well written piece on why capitalism is causing an apocalypse. Every time the author references AI - that it’s out of control, that it’s influencing major portions of society, that it’s strengthening itself - I think what he actually means is that the corporations are those things, and AI is a tool in their arsenal. He tries to make the argument that it’s the other way around (for a fictional web search company): > The institution has its own agency: its own purposes, plans, reasons, and logic, which are more powerful than the humans it employs. Those are subordinate in turn to the AI the company depends on for its survival. The first sentence is absolutely correct. The second? In no way can I believe that the corporation doesn’t have a good understanding of exactly how it can manipulate the AI systems it leverages to achieve its goals. |
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See this talk which compares modern AI work to alchemy (i.e. it works, unreliably, and we don't always know why): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qi1Yry33TQE