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Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.
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this article involving an incredibly eyebrow-raising take from one of the people at METR (the team behind the famous "tasks AI can do doubles every 7 months" graph) saying AI is eventually going to become more impactful than the invention of agriculture and more transformative than the emergence of the human species and also calls it an intelligent alien species. Immensely funny amongst the other people saying "please stop treating AI like magic"
the Harari guy also seems to be into transhumanism if a skim of his wikipedia page is correct. The “this is the first time in history that we have no idea what the world will look like in 10 years” thing is also an eyebrow-raiser. I could probably rattle off a couple examples (ie the two world wars)
I like this one from "A.I. policy researcher" Helen Toner.
Yes girl, good job. Now maybe try connecting these two thoughts!
And of course on that theme from Melanie "Computer scientist" Mitchell
These people have definitely offloaded the cognitive load to chatbots.
Every time I hear about people using chatGPT as a therapist, I want to scream
@EponymousBosh @Amoeba_Girl So they've reinvented ELIZA, but poorly?
An ELIZA you can date. How is that poorly.
On an unrelated note, apparently chatgpt closed down a lot of models yday. Causing a lot of distress among the 'I never heard of the ELIZA effect and I am dating a chatbot' community.
@Soyweiser It's a dumb, less competent psychiatrist. ELIZA might have been simplistic, but it was at least based on an actual psychology theory.
I was joking in the first part. No need to convince me it sucks.
@Soyweiser I'll apologize too, sarcasm doesn't always translate in text.
smoke GPUs every day
I really want to see a Harari takedown.
obligatory: if books could kill did an ep on his big book "sapiens": https://www.buzzsprout.com/2040953/episodes/18220972-sapiens
the aforementioned wikipedia page has got some criticisms of his works under the critical reception section
Had no idea he was a military history guy lol.
neither did I reading this article was my first exposure to him