I was asked by the funders of Better without AI to give opinions about several specific recent reports on AI safety. These are considered major texts in the field.| Better without AI
Most people do not viscerally believe that any further progress is possible. That disbelief, that unwarranted pessimism, is a major impediment to progress itself.| betterwithout.ai
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Current AI results from experimental variation of mechanisms, unguided by theoretical principles. That has produced systems that can do amazing things. On the other hand, they are extremely error-prone and therefore unsafe. Backpropaganda, a collection of misleading ways of talking about “neural networks,” justifies continuing in this misguided direction.| Better without AI
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