🌐 Global Economy 5d ago · Tyler Cowen

Anthropomorphizing AI?

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I am very much opposed to the view that the AIs are sentient, or might be sentient.  I view that as a category error, and the chances of it being true are vanishingly small.  Nonetheless I largely side with Roon when he writes:
there are some number of bad abstractions in anthropomorphizing ai intents but there are at this point more dangers from avoiding anthropomorphism at all costs. if you have a mental picture of guys living in computers, it’ll likely prepare you for the future better than o

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