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Why Artificial Intelligence Often Feels Like Magic
I suppose is that I don’t really buy that any of these guys (roon, BasedJeffBezos, etc.) believe what they’re selling--it all feels like a Twitter performance and rhetorical strategy, embedded in and subservient to a fully non-mystical political economy dominated by venture capital, the national security state, etc. As much as I’d like to join in t... See more
Max Read • Why the internet isn't fun anymore + A.I. and magic
Why this matters
Two groups are having the wrong argument:
The AI boosters think we’re building digital brains. The AI critics think we’re destroying human authenticity.
Both are missing the point.
We’re not building intelligence. We’re building culture machines. Tools that can compress and reconstruct the patterns of human expression.
That’s not a bug.... See more
Two groups are having the wrong argument:
The AI boosters think we’re building digital brains. The AI critics think we’re destroying human authenticity.
Both are missing the point.
We’re not building intelligence. We’re building culture machines. Tools that can compress and reconstruct the patterns of human expression.
That’s not a bug.... See more
The first two concerns I have above are technical in nature. In other words, something happened to the system that it wasn’t designed for. A company got hacked. An attacker emulated a real user and got access to their DA without authorization.
But the one that’s even more scary is when that doesn’t happen, and things work exactly as they’re supposed
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