AI’s big rift is like a religious schism

Re:AI’s big rift is like a religious schism by lazide on Tuesday December 12, 2023 @07:19PM (#38620866)

Because if you don’t have real world constraints (like needing to be profitable, or paying the bill for thermodynamic reality), then ‘anything is possible’.

Also if you aren’t dealing with those, then problems that come from that never occur to the person involved. So the concerns are abstract and not based on real limits or real problems.

Hence ivory tower.

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Re:AI’s big rift is like a religious schism by ethanbond on Tuesday December 12, 2023 @07:53PM (#38621187)

Okay so the server bills or thermodynamic bills mean we need not worry. Open to hearing the argument: tell me how!

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Re:AI’s big rift is like a religious schism by lazide on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @12:37AM (#38623116)

Not at all what I'm saying. What I'm saying is, no one knows where the line between actually economic/useful/effective and 'not worth the trouble' actually is, let alone 'could be done without boiling the oceans'.

Right now it's all hand wavey, could do everything, etc. etc.

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Re:AI’s big rift is like a religious schism by ethanbond on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @08:04AM (#38626733)

That uncertainty is called risk! That is exactly the whole point!

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Re:AI’s big rift is like a religious schism by lazide on Thursday December 14, 2023 @07:24PM (#38649449)

What does that have to do with this thread? You know the ivory tower one?

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