It's so sad that this AI movement never even considers solving problems for humans. They solve problems for companies.
There are so many problems in the world that tech can solve. Heck, do you have to look far to see how disproportionate even the tech is evolving?
But we… Show more
Artem Zakharchenkotwitter.comIt's so sad that this AI movement never even considers solving problems for humans. They solve problems for companies. There are so many problems in the world that tech can solve. Heck, do you have to look far to see how disproportionate even the tech is evolving? But we… Show more
The tendency to think of A.I. as a magical problem solver is indicative of a desire to avoid the hard work that building a better world requires. That hard work will involve things like addressing wealth inequality and taming capitalism. For technologists, the hardest work of all—the task that they most want to avoid—will be questioning the assumpt
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Quite a lot of AGI doomerism comes from the same place as tech solutionism - the idea that the world is simple, everyone else’s jobs are easy, and everything can be changed by this this one set of brilliant engineers with this one brilliant piece of technology.
Benedict Evanstwitter.comTechnology is both the problem and the solution.