Tl;dw: he has two points:
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That between cameras and now AI monitoring, it has just drastically reduce the cost of running an authoritarian regime. He claims that running the Stahsi used to cost like 20% of the government budget, but can now be done for next to nothing and if will be harder for governments to resist that temptation.
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That there hasn’t been much progress in the world of physics since the 70s, so what happens if you point AI and it’s compute power at the field of physics? It could seen wondrous progress and a world of plenty.
Personally I think point 1 is genuinely interesting and valid, and that point 2 is kind of incredible nonsense. Yes, all other fields are just simplified forms of physics, and physics fundamentally underlies all of them. That doesn’t mean that no new knowledge has come from those fields, and that doesn’t mean that new knowledge in physics automatically improves them. Physics has in many ways, done its job. Obviously there’s still more to learn, but between quantum mechanics and general relativity, we can actually model most human scale processes in our universe, with incredible precision. The problem is that that the closer we get to understanding the true underlying math of the universe, the harder it is to compute that math for a practical system… at a certain point, it requires a computer on the scale of the universe to compute.
Most of our practical improvements in the past decade have and will come from chemistry, and biology, and engineering in general, because there is far more room to improve human scale processes by finding shortcuts, and patterns, and designing systems to behave the way we want. AI’s computer scale pattern matching ability will undoubtedly help with that, but I think it’s less likely that it can make any true physics breakthroughs, nor that those breakthroughs would impact daily life that much.
athairmor@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
Didn’t he go perform for the Saudis?
Shut the fuck up, Jimmy.
Stefan_S_from_H@discuss.tchncs.de 20 hours ago
The list is too long to remember, and I don’t look it up every single time I mention a comedian.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riyadh_Comedy_Festival#Part…
madcaesar@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Bill Burr was the biggest disappointment. He went from based to a total piece of shit, gas lightning his fans.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 20 hours ago
Why the fuck do people care what comedians and actors think about anything?
Most of them barely got out of high school.
mrmaplebar@fedia.io 18 hours ago
Bad take for two reasons:
Being consistently funny requires intellect and general cleverness. You can't be quick witted if you're stupid.
More importantly we are all mostly ignorant. You could have a PhD in 3 topics and have spent years in higher education, and you still know only a tiny speck of all that there is to know.
I'm not a fan of Jimmy Carr, especially after the Saudi shit, and I fucking hate AI. But the idea that we shouldn't value the opinions of artists is pretty dumb. There are plenty of smart artists with interesting things to say and unique perspectives.
Stefan_S_from_H@discuss.tchncs.de 16 hours ago
“Carr studied social science and political science at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, graduating with first-class honours in 1994.” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Carr#Early_life_and_e…
There are interesting clips from his stand-up when he takes questions from the audience. Usually he wants to fuck their moms, but occasionally there are very intriguing and intelligent answers.