| ▲ | blooalien 2 hours ago | |
> So many, including the OP, see AI as separator, an entombing force, somehow a black hole of intellect. Because the ultra-rich people who are building and controlling most of it are using it to do exactly those things to society, because they aren't capable of sharing this planet with the rest of us equitably. Were it being used to empower humanity (instead of just a small handful of the worst of us), I'm pretty sure the "AI haters" would be a tiny minority at most (if they existed at all). | ||
| ▲ | Terr_ 2 hours ago | parent [-] | |
In that vein, "Swapping Money For Expertise" [0] suggests that there's a political/power-dynamic at play for why this particular kind of AI is so appealing to your boss' boss: > The fact that a theory-free AI might demand far more cash to accomplish a task (even a "solved" one like playing chess) than an expert [helping with a symbolic AI] would charge is beside the point. Billionaires have money, they don't have expertise. Theory-free inference is a bid to substitute one for the other: the beauty and terror of being able to manipulate the world without studying or understanding it is that it can be done with money alone. No experts needed. > In a world in thrall to financial power, expertise is the only substantial form of power that can reliably contest the power of wealth. [...] This is why AI bosses are so violently allergic to the idea of hybridizing [machine learning] AI with symbolic systems that operate on models of the world. | ||