Artificial Intelligence Is a Red Herring

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i like eric schwitibl's version of this batter i also think this is a way of distracting from more urgent issues. I remember that twitter bought that started spewing notsy shit because it was just reading twit tweets. Like, will these computers just reflect that, or will they reflect sentience? Is a red herring. Why do you thinkthat you need o be sentient to be evil? You can just have like, a really fucked up programme. Mary can be maryis going to, mary's out for fuck and revenge. She's going to make, like, it's like count of monte cristo set with with mary, like that

David and Tamler find themselves unable to attach rational meaning to a single act in their entire lives. Let’s say we publish more articles and books. What then? What about our kids? They’re going off to college. Why? What for? We think about the future of the podcast. Let’s say we get bought out by Spotify and become more famous than Joe Rogan, Dolly Parton, and even Yoel Inbar -- more famous than all the podcasters in the world. So what?

And we can find absolutely no reply.

Plus, we take a test to determine whether we can we tell an AI apart from an analytic philosopher. When should we start getting scared of what AIs are gonna do to us, or what we’re doing to them?

*Note: the main segment is on the first half of Tolstoy’s great memoir "A Confession," but you don’t need to be familiar with the text to appreciate the discussion for this one.