The myth-busts, hot takes, explainers, and tools worth keeping.
“GPT is not giving you the answer remember going back to all the history of AI it's an inference gbt doesn't actually know anything”
“accuracy was never part of its mental model it doesn't have a mental model It's Not a Human Being”
“in fact the biggest problem is us right we are cognitively incapable to address what's in front of us”
“however I also think that human beings have a mental flexibility that AI systems never will”
“between the two forms of Truth the reeks F thought that Mythos was the more true and that logos was simply a tool”
“why this matter so much for us right now is look at AI look at its decisions it's all logos no Mythos”
“I think that there's first been definitely a lack of sacrifice on Modern Generations”
“our attention span has definitely decreased uh and as a result we are no longer holding on to substantial ideas”
“there are things you can do with a large body of information that you fundamentally cannot do with a smaller amount of it”
“the quantitative shift leads to a qualitative shift that more isn't just more that more is different”
“these Winters were When government funding and Industry funding shriveled up for AI”
“we call AI anything we cannot do once we know how to do it”
“there's more mystery to the Mind than than answers”
“this is a very highlevel conceptual way of what an artificial neural network would do that kind of mimics a brain not really”
“so I wonder if maybe we need to introduce a new concept uh it's an old concept too but of dignity of an inherent dignity…”
“what is it that in hundred years people are going to look back at my generation and things that I do and say how the…”
“walking down the street and realizing that all of the world could be rendered as information”
“I took that Insight like so many of us do I took that Insight socked it away never thought about it again forgot about it…”
“there was really only three people in the world who were the leading lights and their students who were pursuing this sort of ridiculous ambition…”
“they reframed AI from trying to give it explicit rules to giving it information and the the computer coming up with its own set of…”
“I'd work at the one place that I didn't think was journalism but something different something apart and that was The Economist”
“what Arnold Toby the historian British historian called the creative minority he described it as those people in every era who step forward to save…”
“it's nonzero and the more that uh but the more that we talk about it the the less likely it becomes”
“however we need to immediately engage in AI arms control”
“absolutely it's going to take our jobs yeah totally uh not everyone's job”
“we can recognize that we have agency we can direct this in the ways that we want to direct it”
“everyone has to start from somewhere and although and it's never too early or too late”
“so if you just were to do one thing and that is listen to the intelligence every day”