Kilian EvangFeb 25

“A.I. discourse is going to be cursed with hucksters, hype beasts, doomsayers, and con artists on every side for the foreseeable future so it unfortunately behooves us to understand what this technology is, and what it isn't.”

A.I. Isn't People
https://www.todayintabs.com/p/a-i-isn-t-people

A.I. Isn't People

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‘The reason I’m harping on this is because the basic thesis of Lewis-Kraus’s story is that “[w]e don’t know if it makes sense to call [these programs] intelligent, or if it will ever make sense to call them conscious.” I think we do know!’
Feb 25 at 7:43amTusky
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“The piece doesn’t tell us who Amanda Askell is beyond the existence of her diploma, which I think is a disservice because she’s quite the character. (…) These people are exhausting, I know, but we have to learn about them because we live in the world they predicted and then created. To be fair they did say that it would suck—it’s the one thing they got right.”
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“But what possible reason could there be for comparing the unknown depths of the human psyche with the workings of an algorithm that can be expressed in 200 lines of Python?”
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‘Terry Pratchett wrote every decent person’s favorite summary of the bedrock of humanist morality in a fantasy book for young readers called I Shall Wear Midnight: “Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.” Treating people as things can begin in many ways, but I think one of them is the idea that things can be people.’