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Anticipating the social consequences of a technology only requires understanding what that technology is capable of, not how it works. This author understands,
by Jeff_Brown 4y ago
Anticipating the social consequences of a technology only requires understanding what that technology is capable of, not how it works. This author understands, correctly, that AI can generate realistic looking images and realistic sounding bullshit very cheaply. At that point, expertise in the social science becomes more relevant than expertise in engineering.
- vorticalbox 4y ago[flagged]
- Jeff_Brown 4y agoGPT makes a fair point. Engineering expertise is certainly necessary to anticipate what future capabilities will arise. But none is needed to anticipate the social effects of a capability once you know the capability already exists.