Re:Pedro Domingos on the Arms Race in Artificial Intelligence
by contingencies on Sunday April 22, 2018 @08:55PM
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Pedro essentially highlights the fact that different cultures are taking different political, academic and commercial approaches to the space.
I found some of his comments insightful: If you think about it, democracy is still in the 19th century. Your communication with your representatives and ministers amounts to a few bits per year. It's ridiculous. and Just like Americans believe in lawyers, the Chinese believe in engineers. However, I resent the needlessly antagonistic us-and-them closing paragraph, which is not constructive. In Buddhism it is said that "right speech" unites people instead of dividing them, and the conclusion to the "scary technology" article transfers the scary to China and is fundamentally divisive.
Back in the real world, as a nominal German starting an AI-backed startup in China, I also found it refreshing and healthy that he can directly criticize Germany for its cultural conservatism in a widely read German publication. We don't see much of that in Australia, New Zealand or China, all of whom, I would argue, consider themselves as a culture significantly less homogenous and conservative than they really are.
Perhaps the world is a far more nuanced place than any of its commentators can fathom, or to quote another German - Einstein (speaking perhaps prophetically for 20th century humanity on the cusp of the self-styled information era): The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don't know.
I found some of his comments insightful: If you think about it, democracy is still in the 19th century. Your communication with your representatives and ministers amounts to a few bits per year. It's ridiculous. and Just like Americans believe in lawyers, the Chinese believe in engineers. However, I resent the needlessly antagonistic us-and-them closing paragraph, which is not constructive. In Buddhism it is said that "right speech" unites people instead of dividing them, and the conclusion to the "scary technology" article transfers the scary to China and is fundamentally divisive.
Back in the real world, as a nominal German starting an AI-backed startup in China, I also found it refreshing and healthy that he can directly criticize Germany for its cultural conservatism in a widely read German publication. We don't see much of that in Australia, New Zealand or China, all of whom, I would argue, consider themselves as a culture significantly less homogenous and conservative than they really are.
Perhaps the world is a far more nuanced place than any of its commentators can fathom, or to quote another German - Einstein (speaking perhaps prophetically for 20th century humanity on the cusp of the self-styled information era): The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don't know.