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Friday Fun Thread for February 17, 2023

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I'm trying to figure out what I should be thinking about AI (largely in attempt to get away from rat-sphere's alarmists and their uncomfortably plausible arguments), so I started by doing the first obvious thing: looking for notable AI skeptics.

Here's the punchline: I used chat GPT for that purpose. Not without mistakes, but on cursory look it seems like the answers are largely correct, most of these are actual people matching the criteria. It gave me five, then I asked "give me some more" and it gave me more. Few months ago something like that would take me a lot more effort in googling, unless I lucked out and someone already did the job for me and I could find it somewhere on internet's surface.

Fuck.

Skeptics in what way? They don't think it's going to displace midwit bit pushers anytime soon ?

They don't think human level intelligence is close ?

Latter. I just think that the times I live in are sufficiently interesting

I think they're just overestimating people, tbh.