Comment on It’s Time to Stop Taking Sam Altman at His Word
ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 1 week agoI don’t think you’re imagining the same thing they are when you hear the word “AI”. They’re not imagining a computer that prints out a new idea that is about as good as the ideas that humans have come up with. Even that would be amazing (it would mean that a computer could do science and engineering about as well as a human) but they’re imagining a computer that’s better than any human. Better at everything. It would be the end of the world as we know it, and perhaps the start of something much better.
Eheran@lemmy.world 1 week ago
That’s the thing, there could be a human 10’000x smarter than Einstein telling us what to do… And it would still not happen.
ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
The computer wouldn’t be telling humans what to do. It would be the one doing things. Imagine a group of chimpanzees that somehow create a human. The human isn’t going to just passively give the chimpanzees directions.
That’s not a perfect analogy because chimpanzees don’t comprehend language, but if a human with a brain just 3.5 times the size of a chimpanzee’s can do so much more than a chimpanzee, a computer with calculational capability orders of magnitude greater than a human’s could be a god compared to us. (The critical thing is to make it a loving god.)
OpenStars@discuss.online 1 week ago
Imagine Jesus Christ as a time traveler, going back from a dying planet to just about the dawn of both roads and also safer sea travel than previously, those two connecting what would become the entire modern world.
Jesus: like, forget all this “religion” crap about what foods to eat & where & when & with who, and like, just be excellent to one another dudes & dudettes
Everyone since then, especially those who borrow His actual fucking name to label themselves: um… how about “no”?