Cam Jones

The thing about being a radical centrist is that you get into twice as many fights as everyone else.

I argue with creatives who insist that AIs are just plagiarism machines. They're not. It's true that these tools enable humans to plagiarize more easily—yes, that's a legitimate concern. But the AIs themselves don't memorize copyrighted works like s... See more

The consequences of climate change, such as more frequent and severe extreme weather, increase with every tenth of a degree of warming; beyond 1.5C, the planet risks crossing thresholds that could trigger abrupt changes and climatic feedback loops.

So why wouldn’t a fledgling AI—even one destined to eventually become very wise and good—do some serious damage before it grows up? Will it be more like a child, learning slowly under our guidance? What will its ‘pulling the wings off flies’ phase look like? Will it treat us as abysmally as we treat other animals?

Even an AI that can think at apprec... See more

This is where Cowen’s self-identification as an “idiot” acquires weight. He does not mean to glorify ignorance. He means to valorize receptivity. To be the idiot in the age of AI is to stand at the edge of one’s own knowledge and resist the impulse to retreat. It is not a capitulation; it is a discipline.

Let's Get Real About The Problems With AI

A comprehensive index of real issues, misconceptions, and cognitive fallacies in artificial intelligence discussions.

If you want a long career in the tech industry, you have to embrace whatever is fashionable, no matter how stupid it seems.

Learn the new thing, use it, become an expert in it. And then be ready to throw it aside and denounce it when the next thing arrives.

The feeling of progress is one of the best feelings of all. This is true even when progress is small.

Here, the lesson I believe is not that we should resist AI, as Tyler rightly says, but that we should anchor its use in the irreducible tacit knowledge of human practitioners. The craftsman with decades of attention behind their choices, the nurse whose diagnostic hunch has been tempered by thousands of bodies and hours, these are not forms of know... See more

The AI bubble is the new crypto bubble: you can tell because the same people are behind it, and they're doing the same thing with AI as they did with crypto – trying desperately to find a use case to cram it into, despite the yawning indifference and outright hostility of the users