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mk
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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
@mk
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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mk
@mk
The human mind’s potential is pretty well bounded by its biology. For example, how fast can a human consume the information in the library of congress?
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Jimmy
@zkp
right, calculators do math faster than us too. llms are basically calculators for languages, both natural and artificial
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kerman
@kerman
I share the same view as well here. The other problem is that we struggle to even define what intelligence is. IQ tests are flawed/narrow so what do we even mean that computers will have more intelligence than us?
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Jimmy
@zkp
exactly. we don't understand so much about human intelligence like dreaming, learning , disease, language, etc. the doomerism is mostly effective marketing. in reality, the threats of ai are mostly how it augments existing technologies, like surveillance, biotech, infosec, etc.
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