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Google is a glorified library. Excavator is a glorified spade. See, I don’t have to be Michio Kaku to do that. I wonder if sometimes people like Kaku make these
by mynegation 3y ago
Google is a glorified library. Excavator is a glorified spade. See, I don’t have to be Michio Kaku to do that. I wonder if sometimes people like Kaku make these outlandish statements for publicity.
- Brian_K_White 3y agoActually those all work fine and don't invalidate his point. No one thinks an excavator drives itself, not even the highly autonomous farm equipment. That was the point, was to say that llms are merely equipment.
- 0thgen 3y agoInterestingly though, he seems to use AI and LLMs interchangeably. AI risk != LLMs; the latter just happened to be so impressive that they shocked us into worrying more about the former. Which is arguably a good thing: humanity beginning preparations for a dangerous tool before the actual dangerous part has even happened
- Brian_K_White 3y agoI do agree with that. It's kind of a facet of the same premis. If a thing is mere equipment, then everyone knows it needs an operator. You don't start the car up and turn it loose to run down the road by itself. A thing doesn't have to have agency to be dangerous. Except we are starting to do exactly that because too many people are not realizing that neither llms nor ai are actually ai with understanding and agency. Or really, they do have agency because we're giving them agency, but we're giving agency to things that don't have understanding and that's the problem.
- bookofjoe 3y agoHacker News is a glorified virtual Colosseum whose emperor is dang