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0 pointswisty2y ago0 comments

I think Max Tegmark said there's 3 main camps of people talking about AI:

1. The people who think AI won't really work (at least in some fundamental way - it might make some stochastic melody but it won't have any creative spark to it).

2. The people who think AI will be able to do everything better than humans (in every possible way, at least as far as a mere human can tell) and that this will be great.

3. The people who think AI will be able to do everything better than humans (in every possible way, at least as far as a mere human can tell) and that this will be terrible.

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Jasper_2y ago

4. The people who think that AI will be able to do everything worse than humans, but at an acceptable enough level for executives, and it's far cheaper than even outsourcing work to other countries.

The trajectory of the last 10 years has been that the quality of the human experience will go down so the people at the top can make more money, and AI fits perfectly into this narrative.

wistyOP2y ago

People used to say that this will never be accepted, especially in high stakes areas like driving a car, but then we saw how it works in the real world.

butlike2y ago

If any arbitrary job becomes trivially easy, what's the monetary value in the work?

helboi42y ago

If everyone's job becomes trivially easy, how do we all eat?

numpad02y ago

That's just either 2 or 3 except said hypothetical executive isn't so bright.

tarsinge2y ago

4. The people who think AI will be able to do some things better than humans and that this will be great.

I think the point is there is no technical "better" in arts. Otherwise painting wouldn't have moved past photorealism and in music we wouldn't have got punk, grunge, lo-fi, screamed vocals... Like I can literally go in tear listening to a singer going slightly out of tune due to the emotions of connecting with another human being. The point is transmitting emotions. AI will be better when you need something generic, consensual, in the current zeitgeist, and mass produced and consumed. It will never replace a human performing by definition.

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