Re:Microsoft is investing $1B in OpenAI
by dane-pgp on Monday July 22, 2019 @05:46PM
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I agree with the above, but imagine the same argument where "the machines" is replaced with "subject-matter experts", or "politicians acting on the advice of subject-matter experts".
The accumulated knowledge and skills of not just specialised individuals but entire institutions, working on highly technical and abstract areas of society, seems like it has created a kind of empathy gap between the people ostensibly wielding power and those who are experiencing the effects of that power (or the limits of that power).
> "... turning them off would amount to suicide."
Although this conclusion appears equally valid in the replacement argument, it sadly doesn't come with the wanted guarantee of "therefore that wouldn't happen".
The accumulated knowledge and skills of not just specialised individuals but entire institutions, working on highly technical and abstract areas of society, seems like it has created a kind of empathy gap between the people ostensibly wielding power and those who are experiencing the effects of that power (or the limits of that power).
> "... turning them off would amount to suicide."
Although this conclusion appears equally valid in the replacement argument, it sadly doesn't come with the wanted guarantee of "therefore that wouldn't happen".