Baldur BjarnasonApr 30, 2023

Your reminder that I've written a book on the business risks of generative AI. "The Intelligence Illusion"

https://illusion.baldurbjarnason.com/

Stuff I cover (not exhaustive):

- AGI is not happening any time soon.
- AGI and anthropomorphism will cripple your ability to think clearly about AI
- The AI industry has a long history of snake oil and fraud
- These models copy more than you think
- Hallucinations are still a thing and aren't going away.
- AI "reasoning" is quite broken
- Security is a shit show

The Intelligence Illusion (Second Edition): Why generative models are bad for business

Available in PDF and EPUB

Show threadl'empathie mécanique
@baldur I got interested in “no AGIs” thesis, but there’s nothing like that in ToC. Am I missing something?
Aug 2, 2023 at 2:51pmWeb
Show threadBaldur BjarnasonAug 2, 2023

@dpwiz I don’t really spend any time debunking AGI except insofar as I cover it in an early chapter, which happens to be available online as well: https://softwarecrisis.dev/letters/ai-bird-brains-silicon-valley/

AGI doesn’t exist yet and probably won’t ever, so I didn’t want to spend much time on it in a practical book about business risks.

Artificial General Intelligence and the bird brains of Silicon V…

The biggest risk of generative AI is believing in the myth of AGI.

Out of the Software Crisis
Show threadl'empathie mécaniqueAug 2, 2023

@baldur I’ve only skimmed and searched for a few keywords, but the overall point of the article is “LLMs are not AGIs” (on which I totally agree).

Unfortunately I didn’t find the “AGIs are impossible” parts. Well, given the overall focus on the status quo, that’s fair. Thanks, anyway!