Not surprising that today's New York Times article about the singularity launders bullshit for big tech with just enough skepticism for plausible deniability.
More impressive: the article quotes 15 different people.
Sundar Pichai
Reid Hoffman
Bill Gates
Elon Musk
Sam Altman
Baldur Bjarnason
John von Neumann
Irving John Good
Hans Moravec
Ray Kurzweil
Rodney Brooks
Jerry Kaplan
Ryan Schaeffer
Eric Schmidt
Charlies Stross
Yes, every single one of them is a man.
@jwcph Stross wrote a book literally called Singularity Sky 20ya, and he's a SciFi author who (from what I know of Stross) prefers to be way out *ahead* of the hype. There are woman who write AI specfic, ofc, but he's one who actually does belong there.
There are MANY women in AI R&D and comp ethics who would have been far better equipped to speak to the tech than the C-Suite VCs.
Also when those dudes return your calls it's bc it's in their interest to do so. For the bubble.
@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] The AI singularity is horseshit. Warmed-over Christian apocalpse horseshit (minus the God/Jesus nonsense). Roko's Basilisk should be the final clue: it emerges logically from the whole farrago of nonsense but it boils down to AI Satan punishing the acausal infidels for their AI original sin. If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck it's a duck: or in this case, a Christian heresy.
Carl T. Bergstrom
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