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mk
@mk
Comparing AI to our other technologies to assess risk is flawed. AI will create technologies that we cannot; so we should not compare them to those we could.
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Philip Milestone
@philipmilestone.eth
Interesting take. (1) Would it not also have been applicable to computing generally? Or the internet? Or steam? (2) If we cannot compare the future to the past, to what should we compare it?
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mk
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No. AI will literally create technologies. It’s intelligence. We cannot compare it. Probably the best effort would be to a hypothetical more-intelligent species, but AI doesn’t have the limitations.
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Jimmy
@zkp
i actually feel the complete opposite, that ai can be compared to a calculator in that it can perform some tasks better but others not. comparing it to super intelligence severely underestimates the human minds potential, especially considering our incomplete understanding of its fundamental processes.
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Philip Milestone
@philipmilestone.eth
My inner Frank Herbert feels this deeply as well…but @mk ‘s point is i think also well taken. Perhaps it’s not a zero-sum? Human vs AI? The better thought experiment might be “what will the augmented intelligence be capable of?”.
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mk
@mk
Augmented human? I expect that will be like putting a motor in a horse. Not much potential for either to leverage the other. If there were potential for leverage, nature would have been inefficient in design.
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Jimmy
@zkp
horses are moved by motors all the time
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