In a survey of AI researchers, most say current AI models are unlikely to lead to artificial general intelligence with human-level capabilities, even as companies invest billions of dollars in this goal
Epistemology is the study of knowledge and there’s a rich history of some deep thinkers who have been noodling about a lot of this for centuries.
There well might be a magic recursive bullet out there, trying to mimic neurons and end up with some sort of synthetic intelligence. But what we have now is nowhere near it. At best, we have electronic parrots cosplaying as deep thinkers and burning through GPUs like there’s no tomorrow. Everyone’s trying to shovel mediocrity as good enough.
Way back in the days of Papert and Minsky and lisp-based AI, people had enough humility to get philosophers involved in these discussions, but the tools and tech were too weak. The current crop of chucklefucks, backed by big money, are too full of hubris to want to go read up lowly liberal-arts thinkers like Locke, Hume, Kant, and Russell.
Let’s just press forward. The promise is always over the next mountain.
Epistemology is the study of knowledge and there’s a rich history of some deep thinkers who have been noodling about a lot of this for centuries.
There well might be a magic recursive bullet out there, trying to mimic neurons and end up with some sort of synthetic intelligence. But what we have now is nowhere near it. At best, we have electronic parrots cosplaying as deep thinkers and burning through GPUs like there’s no tomorrow. Everyone’s trying to shovel mediocrity as good enough.
Way back in the days of Papert and Minsky and lisp-based AI, people had enough humility to get philosophers involved in these discussions, but the tools and tech were too weak. The current crop of chucklefucks, backed by big money, are too full of hubris to want to go read up lowly liberal-arts thinkers like Locke, Hume, Kant, and Russell.
Let’s just press forward. The promise is always over the next mountain.