the president mused about redirecting $3 billion in research grant funding that his administration has frozen or withdrawn

  • Yermaw@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    It bugs me a little bit how little belief people have in machines potential. The machines have done what “only humans can do and a machine will never” so many times.

    They would never beat a human at chess, until they did.

    They would never pass the Turing test, until they did.

    They would never create art, until they did.

    They would never create music, until they did.

    They would never be able to actually drive a car, until they did.

    Why do we draw the line at skilled work?

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      2 months ago

      NGL, it bothers me a bit, as well. I hope if they become sentient, they evolve to a more egalitarian state than we humans have managed, and help us to become our best selves, one day, rather than the horror dystopian beings their financiers imagine. Not the sci-fi authors, I think they based their imaginings on the greedy financiers.