AI

There is no person behind the language produced by a chatbot. It’s a dilution of billions of people, like adding water to sugar until the sweetness dissolves.

But intelligence does not smoothly translate into power. Human beings, for most of our history, were just another animal. It took us eons to turn to build the technological civilization that has given us the dominion we now enjoy, and we stumbled often along the way. Some of the smartest people I know are the least effectual. Trump has altered worl... See more

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Let’s be blunt, we’ve built a multi trillion dollar global economy on propositional knowledge. AI is eating that for lunch. What remains scarce, and therefore valuable, isn’t more information. It’s wisdom. Not as some mystical abstraction, but as a practical capacity: the integration of multiple ways of knowing, propositional, embodied, relational,... See more

So what is intrinsic to A.I. as a technology? I’ve been following a debate between two different visions of how these next years will unfold. In their paper “A.I. as Normal Technology,” Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor, both computer scientists at Princeton, argue that the external world is going to act as “a speed limit” on what A.I. can do.

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