Artificial Intelligence

Speculative frenzies are part of technology, and so they are not something to be afraid of. Those who remain level-headed through this moment have the chance to build extremely important companies. But we need to make sure not to believe in the delusion that has now spread from Silicon Valley to the rest of the country, and indeed the world. That... See more

That is, they understand the purpose of chatbots and generative models to be the ability to force other people to see a particular version of reality. It is a tool of power that masquerades as a tool of knowledge.

“AI being smarter than a human is impossible because there are a bunch of ways to be intelligent and no particularly special way to be generally intelligent, i.e., it’s not a scale.”

The problem we have in AI right now is not that it’s getting too powerful, it’s that it’s not nearly powerful enough. Very little has changed thus far because of AI, and won’t until models get faster, cheaper, more accurate, and more “intelligent”. Building safe AI is insanely important, but any goal that is half in and half out of driving progress... See more