"John Stuart Mill argued that diversity of opinion sustains democracy. If AI funnels us all into the same conceptual pathways, we lose that."

Susan Schneider of Florida Atlantic University, interviewed by Big Think.

https://bigthink.com/the-long-game/why-the-ai-megasystem-problem-needs-our-attention/

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Why the AI “megasystem problem” needs our attention

A conversation with Dr. Susan Schneider on the AI risks we’re not talking about and why the fixation on AGI is misplaced.

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What is #AGI?
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...stack them, suggesting that it seemed to have some understanding of the underlying physics as well. The researchers at #Microsoft described GPT-4 [as] showing sparks of AGI. 👈

But it’s also true that the current models haven’t solved the problems that the founders of #AI set out in 1956. We all know where these savant systems, as #SusanSchneider put it, can let us down. That paper that #GPT-4 just write for us, for example...