Zach WeinersmithMaybe I'm just crazy, but I feel like there is not enough freaking out going on vis-a-vis recent AI developments. It seems to me science, the arts, transportation, engineering... everything is going to be changed, if not in 10 years certainly in 30. It feels to me like there's a lot of denial going on, of the form "well, it can't do [this one thing]" but that was said about chess programs in the 90s. They're now absolutely unbeatable.
John Lusk@ZachWeinersmith
I'm a computer-science-y guy and i am not AT ALL convinced AI is the doom or the salvation everyone says it is. Humans getting paid to do dumb stuff will be "freed". I know that fills many with horror, but the thing about humans is they're irreplaceable. AI can't replace humans, only make them more "productive". When an AI can "understand" (i guess that means "engage in dialog with"), wry, delicate, dark humor, maybe, but even then: is it just pattern-matching?