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Erik Hoel on the Threat to Humanity from AI

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The Sinister Truth About the Autocomplete Function

"We don't know how 12 years of schooling really teaches people how to become mathematicians either," he says. "You can't do brain surgery on the neural network and let's take out the part where it's really sinister because it doesn't exist." The idea that just as the brain can become capable doing lots of other things beside what you learn in school? So could this perhaps learn many other things besides the autocomplete function? Is that your claim at root in some sense? Yeah, absolutely. I mean, this, that sort of claim is already well empirically proven?"

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