Is it me or does it read like pure satire?

An AI ministry, “human-reserved” jobs, and taxes on AI tokens.

lubujackson 13 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Sandbags against a tsunami. When has "pump the brakes on progress" ever worked out?

What we need is deep thinking on the implications and make the default way forward one where we want to go. In other words, we build a channel for the flood waters, not a wall. Creating a role for "somebody to deal with AI issues" is one of those hand-wavvy upper management moves that looks defensible but simply passes the buck to someone who structurally lacks the agency to actual move the needle.

	▲	chasd00 12 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		> When has "pump the brakes on progress" ever worked out? the only thing i can think of was when that Chinese scientist produced gene edited human babies. He was pretty much excommunicated from the scientific community and, eventually, spent some time in jail. AI, on the other hand, has a huge profit potential and way too far out of the bag to go back in. To quote the movie Terminator, "it will never stop". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/He_Jiankui_affair
	▲	jdub 7 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Yes. We can decide not to do bad things. Globally. Occasionally, it takes some time to figure out if something is bad. Especially when there's money to be made. But when we do, we can and have stopped doing them.
	▲	cheptsov 13 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		What surprises me even more is why Bill Gates writes this kind of bizarre, low-quality nonsense in the first place. What purpose does it serve? It’s so obviously shallow that it influences nothing and adds nothing to the conversation.
	▲	inglor_cz 12 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Locally, yes, like the Japanese shogunate blocking the outside world for more than two hundred years. Globally, it is unrealistic.

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pullshark91 13 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

You aren't alone surely

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pydry 13 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

It reads like somebody got AI psychosis.

"A lot of people are skeptical of AI because it makes mistakes. But what's going to happen when it stops making mistakes??? It'll change the world!"

Honestly I suspect he's probably just cynically talking his book. All of this "AI is scary good / it'll be even scarier gooder soon" is no less advertising than slapping a cigarette logo on a racing car.

	▲	azan_ 12 hours ago \| parent [-]
		AI are improving their capacity at blazingly fast rate. Is noticing that AI psychosis? I'd say that believing that we are at the peak of LLM capabilities is some kind of psychosis due to large dose copium inhalation.