I have a counter argument. From an evolutionary standpoint, if you keep doubling computer capacity exponentially isn’t it extraordinarily arrogant of humans to assume that their evolutionarily stagnant brains will remain relevant for much longer?
If you keep doubling the number of fruit flies exponentially, isn’t it likely that humanity will find itself outsmarted?
The answer is no, it isn’t. Quantity does not quality make and all our current AI tech is about ways to breed fruit flies that fly left or right depending on what they see.
As a counter argument against that, companies are trying to make self driving cars work for 20 years. Processing power has increased by a million and the things still get stuck. Pure processing power isn’t everything.
Magic as in street magician, not magic as in wizard. Lots of the things that people claim AI can do are like a magic show, it’s amazing if you look at it from the right angle, and with the right skill you can hide the strings holding it up, but if you try to use it in the real world it falls apart.
The masses have been treating it like actual magic since the early stages and are only slowly warming up to the idea it‘s calculations. Calculations of things that are often more than the sum of it‘s parts as people start to realize. Well some people anyway.
There’s magic?
Only if you believe in it. Many CEOs do. They’re very good in magical thinking.
I have a counter argument. From an evolutionary standpoint, if you keep doubling computer capacity exponentially isn’t it extraordinarily arrogant of humans to assume that their evolutionarily stagnant brains will remain relevant for much longer?
If you keep doubling the number of fruit flies exponentially, isn’t it likely that humanity will find itself outsmarted?
The answer is no, it isn’t. Quantity does not quality make and all our current AI tech is about ways to breed fruit flies that fly left or right depending on what they see.
As a counter argument against that, companies are trying to make self driving cars work for 20 years. Processing power has increased by a million and the things still get stuck. Pure processing power isn’t everything.
Magic as in street magician, not magic as in wizard. Lots of the things that people claim AI can do are like a magic show, it’s amazing if you look at it from the right angle, and with the right skill you can hide the strings holding it up, but if you try to use it in the real world it falls apart.
I wish there was actual magic
It would make science very difficult.
What if it magically made it easier?
Mmm irrational shit makes rationality harder
Look at quantum mechanics
Everything is magic if you don’t understand how the thing works.
I wish. I don’t understand why my stomach can’t handle corn, but it doesn’t lead to magic. It leads to pain.
Have you eaten hominy corn? The nixtamalisation process makes it digestible.
I don’t have access to that, sadly. I’m pretty sure my body would reject it however. At least from my reading on what it is.
If you’re a thechbro, this is the new magic shit, man! To the moooooon!
The masses have been treating it like actual magic since the early stages and are only slowly warming up to the idea it‘s calculations. Calculations of things that are often more than the sum of it‘s parts as people start to realize. Well some people anyway.
oh the bubble’s gonna burst sooner than some may think
Next week, some say
Sam Altman will make a big pile of investor money disappear before your very eyes.
If only.