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It is this that makes generative AI a potentially fertile place in which distributed delusions might take root and bloom.
The deep learning pioneers, the ones who stuck with it in the wilderness years, believe that better neural network architectures will eventually lead to a re-creation of all aspects of human intelligence, including symbolic manipulation, causal inference and common sense (Dickson, 2021).
Resisting AI
Dan McQuillan
In the millennia since we first spoke to and of the world we have lost much of this sense of connection to it: technological progress is all too often accompanied by spiritual attenuation.
Ways of Being
James Bridle
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