Timnit Gebru (she/her)
Again I stand by what I said.
"I can't believe I even have to talk about these people. That's how ridiculous it s."
We have the equivalent of the scientologists running the field of AI with untold amounts of money and power and we're the ones who have to do point by point rebuttals of their eugenicists dreams.
Timnit Gebru (she/her)
"They were like some fringe group that nobody took seriously,” she says of how the tech billionaires who talked up AGI were viewed by those who worked in her field. “Everybody sort of laughed at them out of the room. But because of the money, the billions of dollars that were going into it, they started slowly taking over. Fast-forward to now, this conversation about superintelligence is basically mainstream.”
Dr. Nancy Wayne ✅
@timnitGebru These are the stupidest of times.
Anna
@nancylwayne @timnitGebru the emperor has no clothes was about an emperor for a reason.
Grassroots Joe
"“When you’re aiming at utopia, it offers the promise of transcendence of all limits and the ability to ignore everything else,” Becker argues. “If you know what the end goal is, if you know what the future holds, then you don’t have to worry about laws. You don’t have to worry about morality.” And you certainly don’t have to worry about building a library. It’s survival of the fittest on a disastrous, interplanetary scale."
Know your enemy.
Our enemy, broligharchs, are scary.
tsk
@timnitGebru They vacillate between "we can escape the rabble" to "oh shit, we can't. let's find ways to get them to kill each other while we make healthcare inaccessible to them".
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