mccFeb 4

RE: https://mastodon.social/@mcc/116004809011481588

Anyway the reason I roll my eyes at most of the discussion about "AI", "AGI", "the singularity", "intelligence self-improvement feedback loop" is that like, it happened, it's already happened, it's been happening, it's us. We're it.

Kurzweil talked about lusting for a machine that can make him smarter. I have that, it's a piece of paper. I can write math on a piece of paper and solve problems I can't solve in my head. I can upload all the information in the world directly into my brain (books).

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What "singularity" fanatics actually want is to not have to put in the work
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@mcc to be fair some of them just think that if they cause it, they can control it
Feb 4 at 6:52pmMetatext
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@emaytch
@mcc

They can't even control themselves. 

Show threadBrazMogu (i.e. Bruno Guedes)Feb 4

@emaytch @mcc that is very much the ethos of OpenAI, to avoid that AGI comes to be by the hands of people who are either unprepared for it or willing to use for rmalicious ends

(of course, whether you believe that OpenAI is neither of those things is another matter altogether)