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The DeepMind Institute

186 points · 76 comments · vertigoruntime

  1. nsagent · · focus · HN ↗
    They are simply looking to steer AI policy discussions. It's basically an in-house think tank. It has all the trappings, especially with ominous prognostications like:

      Today’s AI systems have impressive capabilities and the rapid pace of innovation suggests we’re now approaching artificial general intelligence (AGI), a system that exhibits all the cognitive capabilities of the human brain.
    
    Not sure we are anywhere close to all the cognitive capabilities of the human brain... not even a severely lobotomized one.
    1. pixl97 · · focus · HN ↗
      Exactly how many cognitive capabilities are needed before it becomes a problem?
      1. verdverm · · focus · HN ↗
        Just one, the ability to use language, it's causing all sorts of problems for us because we evolved to recognize other humans as the only ones having this capability.

        Ai separated humans from language, like the writing did for memory and the printing press for knowledge distribution.

        "AI does to us what American Cheese did to food" by Opus 23

        <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=1CbmC2aWhjY" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=1CbmC2aWhjY

        (still the best Ai video I have seen, also a work of art)

        1. ozgrakkurt · · focus · HN ↗
          &gt; like the writing did for memory and the printing press for knowledge distribution

          This blob of text seems to mean nothing

          1. pixl97 · · focus · HN ↗
            I&#x27;m not actually sure how you could come to that conclusion.

            Maybe you need to learn more about the language uplift.

            1. ozgrakkurt · · focus · HN ↗
              There being terms and relations doesn&#x27;t mean that they relate in the way that is supposed here.

              &quot;writing&quot; isn&#x27;t a technology in a video game that you research and improves the knowledge preservation instantly. It has a lot of components that it needs to be effective in the way that is described here, and it really wasn&#x27;t that effective even coming to way later ages than the age that it was &quot;found&quot;(?).

              The relations described here aren&#x27;t anologous to &quot;Ai separated humans from language&quot; so they seem like just some arbitrary things to say on the side.

              1. verdverm · · focus · HN ↗
                watch the Opus 23 video, he uses many more words more eloquently, it&#x27;s really a top notch production
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