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Gerben Wierda's avatar

Wise words. No need to buy a paper hat, just in case.

After T.S. Eliot:

Where is the wisdom, lost in knowledge?

Where is the knowledge, lost in information?

Where is the information, lost in data?

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Stephen Fitzpatrick's avatar

I like the focus on the flawed people behind this. I'm reading two Sam Altman bios (or bio adjacent) and he is an intriguing character to say the least. But definitely a character and clearly a millennial. He is Steve Jobs in sheep's clothing. The thing is, I do think they believe it. The rest of us right now are along for the ride and the media laps it up and it's just good enough to cause significant disruption in the present. A perfect storm of challenging coverage given so many of the variables.

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Nelson Zagalo's avatar

But… where’s the revelation here? We’ve always known we were dealing with predictive machines, not minds. The illusion of AGI was always more social performance than technical reality. What we have are LLMs—statistical parrots, as Bender et al. have been saying since day one. So yes, welcome to the human mess. But some of us never left.

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Erik J Larson's avatar

The revelation? Revelation?! You mean like Moses and the 10 Commandments stuff? I'm so sorry to disappoint you!

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Nelson Zagalo's avatar

Touché! And yes — no commandments needed. If anything, The Myth of Artificial Intelligence was already the tablet 😅

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Narrascaping's avatar

AGI is a Cathedral.

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