I’d give humans some credit, they’re an adaptable bunch. AI won’t replace humans in the same way humans did not replace cockroaches. It’s a non-sequitur.
We generally don’t allow cockroaches to thrive in the spaces we claim for ourselves. Question is how much space (economic or otherwise) will AI claim for itself and whether there will be any left for us.
I absolutely believe that AI will supercharge science and replace humans.
Why shouldn't it? Humans are poorly optimized for almost anything, and built on a substrate that's barely hanging together
I’d give humans some credit, they’re an adaptable bunch. AI won’t replace humans in the same way humans did not replace cockroaches. It’s a non-sequitur.
We generally don’t allow cockroaches to thrive in the spaces we claim for ourselves. Question is how much space (economic or otherwise) will AI claim for itself and whether there will be any left for us.
> Humans are poorly optimized for almost anything, and built on a substrate that's barely hanging together
Goodness gracious!
Well, for starters AI doesn't have goals. If there was a super intelligence with goals, why would they work for us?
Fwiw if you trained an LLM in an RL sandbox that would require it to have goals, the output llm probably would "have goals"
Not like large language models, which only required tens of megawatts of power and use highly efficient monte carlo methods, eh
Individual humans are processing nodes on human culture as a whole, which runs on rather more than tens of megawatts.
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replace, no. obsolete, yes
lol
(That's the first time I used that expression on HN.)