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The first sentence is true, but the second raises the question: are we so gullible that the robots don't need to be indistinguishable in order to fool most peop
by safety1st 3y ago
The first sentence is true, but the second raises the question: are we so gullible that the robots don't need to be indistinguishable in order to fool most people?
While the tech is great, if anything I feel like what OpenAI has revealed to us is that we're still a bunch of superstitious apes that are just not cognitively equipped to reason about what we've created.
It feels like a new age of religion is dawning in which we construct myths about the tools we build, instead of myths about the forces of nature. At one point we blamed bad weather on the gods. Our gods now are technological. The cryptocurrency movement was more belief than tool. The AI panic is more belief than tool.
We are apes and we have always worshiped falsehoods but now the falsehoods we worship are unknowable artifacts of technology, Arthur C. Clarke was prescient when he said - "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"