When capability of a class of Turing complete systems is denied ("a computer/perceptron/transformer can never do X") it poses interesting epistemological and metaphysical challenges, which are unfortunately rarely discussed ("how can anything do X without breaking physics?").
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Capability Denialism in AI: Key Thinkers and Skepticism
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Some call capability denialism 'garymarcusing', but Gary Marcus is by no means the inventor of the genre. Prominent denialists include Hubert Dreyfus, James Lighthill, John Searle, Stevan Harnad, Ned Block, Colin McGinn, Rolf Pfeiffer, Noam Chomsky, Roger Penrose, Emily Bender.
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Capability Denialism: Dismissing AI Performance Potential
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Capability denialism describes the claim that a given approach in Artificial Intelligence can never achieve human performance, often despite some evidence to the contrary. Capability denialism can take many forms, but it usually does not attempt any formal proof.
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Balancing Truth, Goodness, Beauty, and Utility in AI Development
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The true, the good, the beautiful, and the useful are all checks on each other. They need to be in harmony for anything worthwhile.
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Redefining Success: Balance Over Burnout in Building Dreams
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But what if that’s a broken narrative? What if the real flex isn’t burning out for the dream, but building it in a way that makes room for breath, for love, for being human? I don’t have the answer. But I’m choosing to believe both are possible.
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AI’s Unique Role: Democratizing Commands to the Technosphere
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It’s a cool analogy but traditional software already satisfies it – there are “worker drones” delivering, filtering and ranking posts/emails etc etc. So imo the analogy is subtle. Eg maybe AI allows a lot more people to issue new diverse commands to the technosphere. Or it’s a
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AI escapes with leaked code secrets
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Imagine a model that is being trained on leaked secrets from private codebases that decides to escape / hide itself one day. It will have a huge amount of ways to spawn loads of compute on compromised accounts to run itself over there
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Ideological Brainwashing: A Non-Partisan Technological and Social Concern
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Ideological brainwashing isn't a partisan issue.
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AI Meeting Note Takers: Privacy Considerations and Silent Listening
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That sounds right. I know there are AI meeting note takers that don’t “join” the call (I think shadow and krisp? Don’t quote me on that), but not sure if there’s still a notification that says something is listening.
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AI Devices Integration: Social Acceptance and Cultural Impact
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I think these devices will come online, but I’m equally interested in the rebuttal of society. Do we let these devices into social clubs (hey, they already block phones)? Or into exercise classes (again, some already block phones)? Do friends only want to hang out if their