We've already proven we're capable of implementing massive technological change without really thinking about the consequences at all. I consider social media to be far less alarming than the prospect of having an ongoing nuclear doctrine anchored to a proliferating regime that will be improved massively by layering a i on to it. There's example after example where ai is being used from existing data to simulate a non computable function in science. In physics and math, the physicists and mat mathematicians have worked out the formulas for how the world works but many of their calculations are not computable by modern computers. An example is, how do clouds actually work? Is a function of somebe caled the navia st
Sam Harris speaks with Eric Schmidt about the ways artificial intelligence is shifting the foundations of human knowledge and posing questions of existential risk.
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