Re:Princeton ‘AI Snake Oil’ authors say GenAI hype has ‘spir...
by md_ on Thursday August 24, 2023 @03:13AM
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> So people continue to predict doomsday and most of the time it doesn’t happen.
Well, the same is true for any prediction of anything unlikely. People continue to predict world-changing innovations, and most of the time they are wrong. That's the reality of any low-probability/high-impact prediction, in the positive or negative direction.
As a specific case of that: most startups fail, so predicting a startup will fail is safe.
Well, the same is true for any prediction of anything unlikely. People continue to predict world-changing innovations, and most of the time they are wrong. That's the reality of any low-probability/high-impact prediction, in the positive or negative direction.
As a specific case of that: most startups fail, so predicting a startup will fail is safe.
I'm pretty prone to exactly that prediction. But I like this quote from Erik Davis (https://www.google.ch/books/edition/High_Weirdness/Rcq2DwAAQ...): "In the court of the mind, skepticism makes a great grand vizier, but a lousy lord."