Skip to main content

I used to look at these kinds of statements as deceptive PR, but increasingly I see them more through the lens of faith.

The tech billionaires are true believers and don’t accept they’re misunderstanding things like intelligence because they believe themselves to be geniuses.

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/deepmind

#tech #ai #agi #deepmind

And after? "Algorithms will be as good as radiographers at looking at scans -- some aspects of those tasks will be augmented by AI. Ten years-plus, it's the AI scientist. And maybe there'll be an AI listed among the authors of a Nature paper. That will be pretty cool."
#AI #tech #agi #deepmind
Paris Marx
Paris Marx  
•

To them, everything is reduced to computation: the brain is a computer; climate change is a technological problem. But none of that is true, and we’re setting ourselves up for chaos if we keep believing these men who assert tech will save us from the crises we face.

#tech #ai #agi #climate #deepmind

Artificial intelligence tends to get a bad rap in popular culture: as cyborg assassins in Terminator, or operating systems, like Samantha in Her, that lure us into unwitting love. So why do we need a general form of AI at all? "I think we're going to need artificial assistance to make the breakthroughs that society wants," Hassabis says. "Climate, economics, disease -- they're just tremendously complicated interacting systems. It's just hard for humans to analyse all that data and make sense of it. And we might have to confront the possibility that there's a limit to what human experts might understand. AI-assisted science will help the discovery process."
#AI #tech #climate #agi #deepmind

Adrian Cochrane reshared this.

JP
JP  
•
"Weird. We keep asking Deep Thought for a solution to these tricky problems and it keeps printing a picture of a guillotine."
"Try feeding it more back issues of The Economist."
"I did. It just prints a bigger picture."

Adrian Cochrane reshared this.

John Burns
John Burns  
•

@daedalus
Wonder when it says:

"Let them eat cake"...?

🤪

@JP
⇧