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Richard was super sensitive about the power companies have over users with closed source software, and had a great impact on our culture (just look at the contr
by xiphias2 4y ago
Richard was super sensitive about the power companies have over users with closed source software, and had a great impact on our culture (just look at the controversy over the name OpenAI), but it seems like he's deeply underestimating the much much bigger power AI is (and soon will be) having over us, even though there have been countless books and movies predicting it, and we feel it coming.
- Zurrrrr 4y agoAll those books and movies deal with artificial consciousness, even though they call it ai. We are not even close to having anything like that.
- unshavedyak 4y agoI view it like Google. Google (web Search) had a ton of impact on humanity on the availability and accessibility of knowledge. Even imagining we continue to improve AI accuracy but assuming we struggle with consciousness i think we'll at the very least be due for a similar impact to that of Web Search. Which is to say knowledge will be even easier to transfer. Linking complex ideas will be easier to transfer. Having LLMs construct arguments for you. These might have sources cited, might not, who knows. The little details like if they obscure information or cite resources will have quite the interesting impact too. Then of course there will be the entertainment impact. Potentially being able to guide AI on all sorts of things like creating media for games, story lines, etc - even with lots of human guidance for the creative parts, has a lot of potential for human impact. Not claiming good or bad, but .. something, heh.
- grantcas 4y ago[dead]