You’re too wrapped up thinking about possible sci fi futures that you haven’t sat down and thought of how these things could work. I’ve watched ML cancer screening advance, then watched as these new age “AI” companies tried the same research I saw years ago and unequivically fail because they strapped a fn language model that’s been trained off Reddit to patient health records, thinking it would become smarter (it didn’t).
No I’m not. Like I said above, AI tech even as it is now is enough to dramatically change the labour market. And I use the word “AI” in the broad sense, not in the normie sense of talking exclusively about ChatGPT.
Even if progress on frontier models stopped being made right now, there’d be a ton of potential left to unlock just by refining and optimizing existing breakthroughs. You are not recognizing the sheer quantity of breakthroughs that have happened even just within the past 5 years, most of which are still poorly explored because (1) it generally takes science more than five years to go from breakthrough to practice, and (2) the big money is gambling on developing AGI.
I couldn’t care less about AI companies trying to sell chatbot subscriptions to every sucker in a suit, that has absolutely nothing to do with my assessment. A lot of people, including you, cling to these marketing ploys as examples of AI being a nothingburger, when all it is is the eternal cycle of companies scamming other companies. Someone somewhere being sold a lie does not diminish the stuff AI can do in the slightest.
I’m getting really tired of Kurgesat sci bros suddenly thinking “oh yeah the end of civilization is actually the good option, but we also want the transhuman ultra singularity” while they actively cheer the richest people to trash the economy, environment, and democracy to make it happen.
If you think that’s my position then you’re mistaken. It’s possible to recognize the risks and possibilities of the technology without supporting the way American tech companies are going about it. In fact my position is what it is precisely because I recognise the danger the American tech hegemony controlling AI represents.
No I’m not. Like I said above, AI tech even as it is now is enough to dramatically change the labour market. And I use the word “AI” in the broad sense, not in the normie sense of talking exclusively about ChatGPT.
Even if progress on frontier models stopped being made right now, there’d be a ton of potential left to unlock just by refining and optimizing existing breakthroughs. You are not recognizing the sheer quantity of breakthroughs that have happened even just within the past 5 years, most of which are still poorly explored because (1) it generally takes science more than five years to go from breakthrough to practice, and (2) the big money is gambling on developing AGI.
I couldn’t care less about AI companies trying to sell chatbot subscriptions to every sucker in a suit, that has absolutely nothing to do with my assessment. A lot of people, including you, cling to these marketing ploys as examples of AI being a nothingburger, when all it is is the eternal cycle of companies scamming other companies. Someone somewhere being sold a lie does not diminish the stuff AI can do in the slightest.
If you think that’s my position then you’re mistaken. It’s possible to recognize the risks and possibilities of the technology without supporting the way American tech companies are going about it. In fact my position is what it is precisely because I recognise the danger the American tech hegemony controlling AI represents.