Jelle Zuidema

Imagine being "chief features writer" for the Financial Times, and for your feature on Artificial Intelligence hype you paste together a couple of quotes from the usual suspects you know from Twitter: Marcus, Bender, Chollet, ...

Henry Mance gets away with it, but I think the debate on AI & society deserve a wider set of voices, and journalists that dig a little deeper. 1/2

https://www.ft.com/content/648228e7-11eb-4e1a-b0d5-e65a638e6135

AI keeps going wrong. What if it can’t be fixed?

Pessimists warn it could wipe out humanity. Optimists hail a medical revolution. Henry Mance meets the sceptics who argue that the technology is simply flawed

Apr 8, 2024 at 7:08pmWeb
Show threadJelle ZuidemaApr 8, 2024

Not just "she says, he says" but an investigation of who has the better arguments. Not just professional AI-debaters, but people that actually do research on AI or on the impact it has. Not just "Hinton predicts the end of humanity", but some serious detail on how negative consequences may come about. Not just "there are optimists, pessimists and skeptics", but an analysis of who profits from all the hype, and who may be deliberately fueling it and why.

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Show threadMichiel BontenbalApr 8, 2024
@wzuidema in your view who has a good overview of the current state of the field, with the limitations of current models and an idea of a way forward? And what do you think about LeCun’s recent Harvard lecture?