The thing I find most suspicious/fishy/smelly about the current article is that Charley is a cracking good writer who has just found that a machine might be abl

The thing I find most suspicious/fishy/smelly about the current article is that Charley is a cracking good writer who has just found that a machine might be able to take his job. Now, of course, AI is all a giant scam. It's been steadily progressing in a way that connected people could see since GPT-2[0]. But only now, with the clouds on the horizon is it clearly and obviously some conspiracy. "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it." [0]: GPT-2 As Step Toward General Intelligence: https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/02/19/gpt-2-as-step-toward-general-intelligence/ https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/02/19/gpt-2-as-step-toward-g...