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The Great AI Hallucination (Rerun)

The Politics of Everything

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The Fear of AI

There's this computer scientist named Francois Chole and he wrote a paper called On the Measure of Intelligence. By this measure, computers are highly skilled because they perform very well at certain tasks. But they're not at all intelligent. Have we created any program that can actually acquire new skills? It might be like a fundamental category error to think that a computer could make itself smarter. And it strikes me that long before we have to worry about super intelligent computers, we will have to worry how much less intelligent computers will be used by people.

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