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As the ideology behind this bait-and-switch leaks into the wider culture, it slowly corrodes our own self-understanding. If you try to point out, in a large lecture or online forum on AI, that ChatGPT does not experience and cannot think about the things that correspond to the words and sentences it produces — that it is only a mathematical generator of expected language patterns — chances are that someone will respond, in a completely serious manner: “But so are we.”
The Danger of Superhuman AI Is Not What You Think
Shannon Vallor
For an economy to come into being, something else was needed: a capacity to go beyond just gathering bananas from trees or hunting animals – a capacity to produce food or instruments that would not have existed without human labour.
Talking to My Daughter
Yanis Varoufakis
The fact that the governance of one of the most visible AI companies in the world can change literally overnight should be a reminder that we can’t make our judgements about a company’s trustworthiness based simply on a vibe about their CEO.
The Biggest Immediate Lesson From the OpenAI Meltdown
Gary Marcus
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