An old favorite that might find new relevance with the growth of OpenAI. Substance of the article begins after the quote from John Stuart Mill. Some of my favorite passages:<p>"One reason for my own skepticism is the fact that in recent years the AI landscape has come to be progressively more dominated by AI of the newfangled 'deep learning' variety [...] But if it’s really AI-as-cognitive science that you are interested in, it’s important not to lose sight of the fact that it may take a bit more than our cool new deep learning hammer to build a humanlike mind.<p>[...]<p>If I am right that there are many mysteries about the human mind that currently dominant approaches to AI are ill-equipped to help us solve, then to the extent that such approaches continue to dominate AI into the future, we are very unlikely to be inundated anytime soon with a race of thinking robots—at least not if we mean by “thinking” that peculiar thing that we humans do, done in precisely the way that we humans do it."
> How shall we find meaning and purpose in a world without work?<p>What? Everyone in the world is brain damaged enough to all keep repeating this useless idea.<p>Work is just the shit you do for other people to stay alive. If a robot is doing that thing, I'll do something else. If robots do everything a person can do for zero marginal cost, then the we are in a post-scarcity utopia, why is that bad?
> When the system does need a human pilot to do something, it usually just needs the human to expertly execute a particular sequence of maneuvers. Mostly things go right. Mostly the humans do what they are asked to do, when they are asked to do it. But it should come as no surprise that when things do go wrong, it is quite often the humans and not the machines that are at fault.<p>Actually that’s dead wrong, it is the system that is at fault here, rarely or never the human. Otherwise I thought this was a really good read.
I'm confident in 10 years we'll look back on this and laugh at how people thought AI would take over, and in 200 years we'll be upset they didn't do more