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This "AI debate" is pretty stupid, proceeding as it does from the foregone conclusion that adding compute power and date to the next-word-predictor program will eventually create a conscious being, which will then inevitably become a superbeing.
The #OpenAI Soap-Opera Hijacked the Attention of Millions of Productive...
Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr
There is a kind of toxic indifference that seems to have spread through Western societies. Life itself is treated with a kind of shrugging fatalism — especially those of the vulnerable. It is literally valued less than a night out at the pub by much of society. The attitude of toxic indifference is what the West seems to share in common now, and that is why it has been brought to its knees by Covid.
How the West Got Covid So Wrong
umair haque
In Silicon Valley, efficiency is an end in itself. “It’s about achieving a situation where the problem is solved and there’s no more friction, no more ambiguity, nothing left unsaid or undone, you’ve dominated the problem and it’s gone and all there is left is your perfect shining solution. It is this ideology of intelligence as a thing that wants to remove the business of thinking.”
AI Is the Black Mirror
Philip Ball
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