I have updated my beliefs about AI from "they are glorified Markov Chains" to "they are glorified Markov Chains that are likely to change the world at least as much as electric motors did. Likely more." Yeah, AIs winning Maths Olympiad golds is cray-cray. But I, like Moravec, will be more impressed if they can come into my home and make me a coffee. Next year?
(And I have been confirmed in my belief that evolution optimises ruthlessly for energy efficiency above all else, which is why human reasoning (and humans in general) are so flawed.)
Edit: In response to Mr Wood, I am near retirement and have coronary artery disease, and plan to spend what little time I have left hand-carving Arduino code libraries and trapping stoats. Yeah, I'm not representative.
Thanks for the Lacan warning; I need Freud and Jung warnings too, as I've their perspectives very seem very accurate/useful to me! I'd rather just read your claims/analysis straight on, without referring to them. (No need for citations--it's only Substack after all :)
But enough about me: I thank you so much for confronting the goal-post movers, the "I am not impressed" school of analysis that has become insufferable. They seem to say: We won't have AGI for at least ten years or more, so what are you so excited about?
As you say, it's as if they are so frightened they can't see the wildlife that is walking right here in front of them.
I'm frightened, too. We all are. But I'd rather not talk about it all than deny I am afraid.
I have updated my beliefs about AI from "they are glorified Markov Chains" to "they are glorified Markov Chains that are likely to change the world at least as much as electric motors did. Likely more." Yeah, AIs winning Maths Olympiad golds is cray-cray. But I, like Moravec, will be more impressed if they can come into my home and make me a coffee. Next year?
(And I have been confirmed in my belief that evolution optimises ruthlessly for energy efficiency above all else, which is why human reasoning (and humans in general) are so flawed.)
Edit: In response to Mr Wood, I am near retirement and have coronary artery disease, and plan to spend what little time I have left hand-carving Arduino code libraries and trapping stoats. Yeah, I'm not representative.
Thanks for the Lacan warning; I need Freud and Jung warnings too, as I've their perspectives very seem very accurate/useful to me! I'd rather just read your claims/analysis straight on, without referring to them. (No need for citations--it's only Substack after all :)
But enough about me: I thank you so much for confronting the goal-post movers, the "I am not impressed" school of analysis that has become insufferable. They seem to say: We won't have AGI for at least ten years or more, so what are you so excited about?
As you say, it's as if they are so frightened they can't see the wildlife that is walking right here in front of them.
I'm frightened, too. We all are. But I'd rather not talk about it all than deny I am afraid.