Posts
December 2018
Welcome to cogito ex machina
30th December 2018
The Opinion section is a blog of sorts, sharing provisional conclusions arising from my study and putting forward some of my own opinions. There is nothing much here yet because I wanted to get the piece about Steven Pinker's mistaken argument out quickly, but there is much more being worked on and that will follow later.
January 2019
Coherent arguments about the existential risk of Artificial Intelligence
1st January 2019
I wanted to call this "Steven Pinker was sent by Skynet to fool us!" but the joke might have backfired
In an October 2018 interview the Harvard academic and author Steven Pinker said that:
- he finds arguments about the existential threat of AI to be incoherent
- and that we should 'trust the engineers'.
When asked about a tweet by Elon Musk about the difference between narrow AI and AGI, Steven Pinker waved it away, implied that Elon Musk is a hot-head and said that this was not the last time that "Elon Musk has fired off an intemperate tweet".
Although that may be true, it doesn't prove Pinker's point about AI not being worth spending too much time worrying about, so this short animated video examines Pinker's assertions, coolly.