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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://mastodon.social/users/caseynewton/statuses/113603304333723835">Casey Newton (caseynewton@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 06-Dec-2024 10:34:51 JST</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/@caseynewton" title="caseynewton@mastodon.social"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/61006-48-20240126011805.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="Casey Newton" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">Casey Newton</a></section><article><p>One of the most important debates in tech right now is the group of folks who think AI is fake and sucks vs. the people who think AI is real and dangerous. I wrote about why I'm in the latter camp, and talked about my differences with Gary Marcus <a href="https://www.platformer.news/ai-skeptics-gary-marcus-curve-conference/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.platformer.news/ai-skeptics-gary-marcus-curve-conference/</a></p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/4132321#notice-8075635">In conversation</a><time datetime="2024-12-06T10:34:51+09:00" title="Friday, 06-Dec-2024 10:34:51 JST">about 4 months ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://mastodon.social/@caseynewton/113603304333723835" rel="external" title="Sent from mastodon.social via ActivityPub">mastodon.social</a></span></span><a href="https://mastodon.social/@caseynewton/113603304333723835">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/3639998">Most people know these systems are flaws, and adjust their expectations and usage accordingly. The “AI is fake and sucks” crowd is hyper-fixated on the things it can’t do — count the number of r’s in strawberry, figure out that the Onion was joking when it told us to eat rocks — and weirdly uninterested in the things it can.And that’s a problem, because just as these systems are more honest and helpful than they have ever been, they are also causing greater harm. And to name a real harm, already happening today, I offer the chief security officer of Amazon, CJ Moses, who had this to say about how generative AI is being used in efforts to disrupt critical infrastructure in an interview with the Wall Street Journal last month:We’re seeing billions of attempts coming our way. On average, we’re seeing 750 million attempts per day. Previously, we’d see about 100 million hits per day, and that number has grown to 750 million over six or seven months.
This is the ongoing blind spot of the “AI is fake and sucks” crowd. This is the problem with telling people over and over again that it’s all a big bubble about to pop. They’re staring at the floor of AI’s current abilities, while each day the actual practitioners are successfully raising the ceiling.</a></label><br><a href="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/603/304/069/679/128/original/6d996496f2e4864b.png" rel="external">https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/603/304/069/679/128/original/6d996496f2e4864b.png</a></li><li><article><header><div>Domain not in remote thumbnail source whitelist: www.platformer.news</div><h5><a href="https://www.platformer.news/ai-skeptics-gary-marcus-curve-conference/">The phony comforts of AI skepticism</a></h5><div> from <span>@CaseyNewton</span></div></header><div>It’s fun to say that artificial intelligence is fake and sucks — but evidence is mounting that it’s real and dangerous</div><footer></footer></article></li></ol></footer></blockquote>

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Casey Newton (caseynewton@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 06-Dec-2024 10:34:51 JST Casey Newton
One of the most important debates in tech right now is the group of folks who think AI is fake and sucks vs. the people who think AI is real and dangerous. I wrote about why I'm in the latter camp, and talked about my differences with Gary Marcus https://www.platformer.news/ai-skeptics-gary-marcus-curve-conference/
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1. Most people know these systems are flaws, and adjust their expectations and usage accordingly. The “AI is fake and sucks” crowd is hyper-fixated on the things it can’t do — count the number of r’s in strawberry, figure out that the Onion was joking when it told us to eat rocks — and weirdly uninterested in the things it can. And that’s a problem, because just as these systems are more honest and helpful than they have ever been, they are also causing greater harm. And to name a real harm, already happening today, I offer the chief security officer of Amazon, CJ Moses, who had this to say about how generative AI is being used in efforts to disrupt critical infrastructure in an interview with the Wall Street Journal last month: We’re seeing billions of attempts coming our way. On average, we’re seeing 750 million attempts per day. Previously, we’d see about 100 million hits per day, and that number has grown to 750 million over six or seven months. This is the ongoing blind spot of the “AI is fake and sucks” crowd. This is the problem with telling people over and over again that it’s all a big bubble about to pop. They’re staring at the floor of AI’s current abilities, while each day the actual practitioners are successfully raising the ceiling.
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  The phony comforts of AI skepticism
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  It’s fun to say that artificial intelligence is fake and sucks — but evidence is mounting that it’s real and dangerous

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