We are on track to potentially learn there's no deep mysterious secret to human cognition. If and when we crack that, this planet will experience the technological singularity.
I thought the singularity was a crackpot idea not much different from string theory in how it tries to sell itself. We were stuck in the post WWII, post globalization, smartphone incrementalism age. Now we're moving on to something exciting again.
What I'm getting at is that you'll not only see more articles like this, but that collectively as a species we're going to start feeling a whole lot less special.
If that's the case, expect a massive backlash from the spiritual types, which basically means every other person. The centrality of man is essential to the abrahamic religions that dominate the planet, and other ones too will struggle to come to terms with seeing ghosts in the machine. I suspect organized religions will find ways to officially ostracize Machine Learning over the next decade. They'll form an alliance with people whose jobs are threatened, and pass laws to smother or ban research and deployment.
I am not a believer in an "AI revolution" or singularity, I think they're still one step up from parlor tricks, and anyway the world can evolve as fast as it can devolve (a nuke or two and we're in the ancient world again), but it feels inevitable that we're going to experience some significant neoluddite movement very, very soon.
Check back in 12 months.
I bet my entire life -- not just the sum total of my millions in earnings, but my whole life -- that this the moment humans duplicate the spark that makes us who we are. And from there, God only knows what is possible.
I'm pouring my life savings into this. I really don't think I'm wrong.
In under a decade all of the engineers here that think this is just a toy are going to be finding out what the artists did.
Every day it improves. And it's not stopping.
A few different kinds of dystopia, mainly.
I would hedge that bet.
Which, regardless of the existence of god or not (which is irrelevant) sounds very smart. Basically a great defense mechanism!
Hopefully the non-spiritual types wont delegate themselves and everybody else to AI-slavery or annihilation...
Do they really dominate? They're big and all, but both economically (and to an even greater extent by population) China + Japan + India are also pretty substantial, and not predominantly Abrahamic. And even in the west, religiosity is in decline.
> inevitable that we're going to experience some significant neoluddite movement very, very soon.
Absolutely agree, the discourse from those artists who vehemently dislike AI art speaks to this.
How powerful they are, I do not know. But they are there, they don't like what they see, and they have already turned the counter-arguments into bingo cards.
What’s there to understand?
They are nowhere near close to human intelligence.
What a blinder of an specious insight.
We don't even understand scaled up LLM let alone brains to make a meaningful inferences here.
It's also a disingenuous title for the linked article.