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That quote is juicy. It's amusing to me that he's so naive he thinks that an AI won't make forced or unforced errors given the imperfect information it inevitab
by throwway120385 3y ago
That quote is juicy. It's amusing to me that he's so naive he thinks that an AI won't make forced or unforced errors given the imperfect information it inevitably has. And if you can get access to the training set or the corpus of variables the AI is configured with then you can easily predict what it's going to do next, which is far worse. Nobody can look into the mind of a mediocre general, but anyone can look into the mind of any AI general given sufficient access.
People who call themselves technologists always overestimate how beneficial a new technology is and underestimate how inhumane its application becomes when venture capitalists demand 10x or 100x their initial investment. When people like him come in and extol the virtues of some new thing as fixing everything and making everything better, I'm really wary of what they do next. Inevitably they're trying to sell me a bill of goods.
- parentheses 3y agoBoth responses seem to indicate you believe this is what pmarca thinks. VC is two parts: (1) make the world think X is good and (2) make investments in X