skillzdadirecta Posted August 26, 2022 Share Posted August 26, 2022 We Need to Talk About How Good A.I. Is Getting - The New York Times WWW.NYTIMES.COM We’re in a golden age of progress in artificial intelligence. It’s time to start taking its potential and risks seriously. Doesn't someone here work in A.I.? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SimpleG Posted August 26, 2022 Share Posted August 26, 2022 8 minutes ago, skillzdadirecta said: We Need to Talk About How Good A.I. Is Getting - The New York Times WWW.NYTIMES.COM We’re in a golden age of progress in artificial intelligence. It’s time to start taking its potential and risks seriously. Doesn't someone here work in A.I.? @legend Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
legend Posted August 26, 2022 Share Posted August 26, 2022 38 minutes ago, skillzdadirecta said: We Need to Talk About How Good A.I. Is Getting - The New York Times WWW.NYTIMES.COM We’re in a golden age of progress in artificial intelligence. It’s time to start taking its potential and risks seriously. Doesn't someone here work in A.I.? Yeah, I do research in AI and have been lucky enough to have started when AI capabilities were laughably limited, to now working on projects that are better than humans in certain capacities at complex tasks. AI research is in a state of very rapid progress compared to where we were any time before 10 years ago. And importantly, it's reached a point where it's actually useful in lots of spaces rather than very niche areas. People will be increasingly interacting with AI technology. That said, there are many huge open issues to getting to human-like cognitive capabilities. "AGI" if you want to use that term (I've come to hate it as a term though). So while progress is rapid and now good enough to impact people's lives, we're still a long way from biological intelligence. This part of the article is on point: Quote What’s missing is a shared, value-neutral way of talking about what today’s A.I. systems are actually capable of doing, and what specific risks and opportunities those capabilities present. Do not listen to charlatan tech bros or certain groups of philosophers either selling AI utopia or existential risk. Both are fantasy. The reality is there are many "mundane" issues that are in far more need of attention and the real worst case you have to worry about is how powerful people use powerful technology, just as that's been the issue since the dawn of civilization. 2 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Comet Posted August 27, 2022 Share Posted August 27, 2022 32 minutes ago, legend said: Yeah, I do research in AI and have been lucky enough to have started when AI capabilities were laughably limited, to now working on projects that are better than humans in certain capacities at complex tasks. AI research is in a state of very rapid progress compared to where we were any time before 10 years ago. And importantly, it's reached a point where it's actually useful in lots of spaces rather than very niche areas. People will be increasingly interacting with AI technology. That said, there are many huge open issues to getting to human-like cognitive capabilities. "AGI" if you want to use that term (I've come to hate it as a term though). So while progress is rapid and now good enough to impact people's lives, we're still a long way from biological intelligence. This part of the article is on point: Do not listen to charlatan tech bros or certain groups of philosophers either selling AI utopia or existential risk. Both are fantasy. The reality is there are many "mundane" issues that are in far more need of attention and the real worst case you have to worry about is how powerful people use powerful technology, just as that's been the issue since the dawn of civilization. Yeah bruv but you’re not even taking into account what AI can do when you combine it with blockchain technology and quantum computing 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted August 27, 2022 Share Posted August 27, 2022 1 minute ago, Comet said: Yeah bruv but you’re not even taking into account what AI can do when you combine it with blockchain technology and quantum computing How does slurp juice fit into this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anathema- Posted August 27, 2022 Share Posted August 27, 2022 slurp juice means three new astro apes 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anathema- Posted August 27, 2022 Share Posted August 27, 2022 1 minute ago, Anathema- said: slurp juice means three new astro apes Sokath his eyes opened Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 27, 2022 Share Posted August 27, 2022 I want to believe @legend, but it is entirely possible Legend is a skynet-like AI system and is trying to lull us into a false sense of safety Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyser_Soze Posted August 27, 2022 Share Posted August 27, 2022 @legend Says he works in AI and is working on a project he can't ell us about but that sounds exactly what an AI would say 🤔 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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