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A person who does understand how new technology works will see it as a dumb contraption. A person who doesn't understand how it works will see it as magic.
by Jensson 4y ago
A person who does understand how new technology works will see it as a dumb contraption.
A person who doesn't understand how it works will see it as magic.
- famouswaffles 4y agoLol no. That's just what you tell yourself to feel smart. They're are many who understand that don't think of it as dumb. "I think GPT-3 is artificial general intelligence, AGI. I think GPT-3 is as intelligent as a human. And I think that it is probably more intelligent than a human in a restricted way… in many ways it is more purely intelligent than humans are. I think humans are approximating what GPT-3 is doing, not vice versa.” — Connor Leahy, co-founder of EleutherAI, creator of GPT-J (November 2020)
- Jensson 4y agoA founder trying to sell a product by telling you the product is magic? Yeah, very trustworthy source there.
- oska 4y agoThat quote reveals either that they are 1) delusional or 2) a fraudster. Your comment leans more towards 2) but I think 1) is also a possibility, which in some ways I find more concerning (delusional cult leaders being potentially more dangerous than common fraudsters).