Cory DoctorowThis profile of me in *The New Yorker* came out really well, if I do say so myself:
Gsoc@pluralistic All problems with AI raise from the sensitive applications these systems are blindly used for. AI is just a blanket term for "statistics-guided algorithm": AI is not "intelligent". AI algorithms (in particular deep learning) can encode correlations in data and therefore highlight such correlations in other data, but there is no magic behind it. We need to remember that *correlation does not imply causation*.
tolortslubor@gsoc @pluralistic This. #AI will not need what we know as #consciousness, or even will or agency, to have dramatic and permanent impacts on human society. Increasingly, decision-makers are trusting it. San Francisco PD just approved killer robots. WTF are the executives doing, besides front-running markets with their quants and high-frequency trading?
@tolortslubor @pluralistic AI does not have consciousness. As Federico Faggin (the inventor of the microprocessor) says, no (classical) computer have consciousness, regardless of the algorithm they run. Hearing about ""AI-empowered"" killer robots that work as policemen left me *literally* speechless.