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Kirk Olson's avatar

Thank you for the article Tomas.

There are a few themes I would like to read more about.

1. Experts anthropomorphizing AI in the other direction by suggesting that AI needs to be like human intelligence to be successful. Human's truly have nothing to compare their intelligence to which is other-worldly ... and now there is AI. Why exactly does AI need to be recognizable, to look like human intelligence?

2. How do humans handle chaos? We build rules. Rules actually look more like guidelines or guardrails. We do not stop our three and four year old children from out and out lying because we can't, understanding that lying is a tool to be used delicately with the utmost consideration. It takes practice to do well. It will likely leave some wreckage over a lifetime. AI will mirror some of these human mastery challenges precisely because it must master a human language early on the road to autonomy. There will be other signposts of sophistication.

3. There is something (haha, probably much more than what is known) science has yet to unravel about how nature works. Whether living or not living, organic or inorganic it seems change exhibits a progression that is not reversible. The entities that live on the Earth are one with the Earth and so this progress naturally extends to entities which aren't generally considered living, in the human sense of the word. Have we somehow engineered an entity that exists outside of that reality? Isn't AI going to assume its natural place in that progression? If so then maybe proper guardrails will be enough because that is really all we can do. We are certainly incapable of halting progress.

Thank you for your consideration Tomas.

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