Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter

Re:Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter by JW_00000 on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @05:25PM (#35363943)

> Education beyond basic reading and writing will become unattainable (and, frankly, unnecessary)

Is this possible in democracies with free (i.e. state-provided) education? Why would a majority vote to abolish education?

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Re:Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter by nice_byte on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @05:40PM (#35364142)

i didn't say it would get abolished, more like wither away. here's a possible path to it:

1) school program getting progressively dumbed down; 2) fewer and fewer people choosing to continue education after school.

continuing education is mostly necessary to become specialized and perform knowledge work, it would be a waste of time to do so with emergence of a.i. agents capable of performing these functions even at a level _comparable_ to humans (let alone exceeding).

repeat this for a few decades and you have a new dark age.

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