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Having said all that: I confess I enjoyed "2040." The plot is tightly constructed, the dialogue crackles (certainly for a CS professor writing a first novel), the satire at least provokes chuckles, and at just 215 pages, the action moves.
Scott Aaronson
Theoretical computer scientist, Schlumberger Centennial Chair of Computer Science at the University of Texas at Austin and director of its Quantum Information Center. Writes the blog Shtetl-Optimized.
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Human-level artificial intelligence is plausibly centuries or millennia away, and no trend supports a shorter estimate.
Before If I were forced at gunpoint to guess, I’d say that human-level AI seemed to me like a slog of many more centuries or millennia (with the obvious potential for black swans along the way).
Now I was wrong, of course, not to contemplate more seriously the prospect that AI might enter a civilization-altering trajectory, not merely eventually but within the next decade.
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If I were forced at gunpoint to guess, I'd say that human-level AI seemed to me like a slog of many more centuries or millennia
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I was wrong, of course, not to contemplate more seriously the prospect that AI might enter a civilization-altering trajectory, not merely eventually but within the next decade.
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precisely because smart people do devote brain-cycles to these possibilities, the rest of us have correspondingly less need to.
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I accepted what’s turned into a two-year position at OpenAI, thinking about what theoretical computer science can do for AI safety.
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Their words, before
If I were forced at gunpoint to guess, I’d say that human-level AI seemed to me like a slog of many more centuries or millennia (with the obvious potential for black swans along the way).
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I was wrong, of course, not to contemplate more seriously the prospect that AI might enter a civilization-altering trajectory, not merely eventually but within the next decade.
19 May 2023
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So I can now state with confidence: beating out a crowded field, this is the worst book about quantum computing, for some definition of the word "about," that I've ever encountered.
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Viral: The Search for the Origin of COVID-19Their words
Briefly, I think that this is one of the most important books so far of the twenty-first century.
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The AI Does Not Hate You: Superintelligence, Rationality, and the Race to Save the WorldTheir words
Briefly, I think the book is a triumph.
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Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and ProgressTheir words
So my advice is this: buy Pinker's book and read it.
16 November 2017
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Inadequate EquilibriaTheir words
I do have two criticisms of the book, both relatively minor compared to what I loved about it.
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Having said all that: I confess I enjoyed "2040." The plot is tightly constructed, the dialogue crackles (certainly for a CS professor writing a first novel), the satire at least provokes chuckles, and at just 215 pages, the action moves.
scottaaronson.blog 1 Sept 2024
Disliked Quantum Supremacy: How the Quantum Computer Revolution Will Change Everything
So I can now state with confidence: beating out a crowded field, this is the worst book about quantum computing, for some definition of the word "about," that I've ever encountered.
scottaaronson.blog 19 May 2023
Loved Viral: The Search for the Origin of COVID-19
Briefly, I think that this is one of the most important books so far of the twenty-first century.
scottaaronson.blog 1 Jan 2022
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Loved The AI Does Not Hate You: Superintelligence, Rationality, and the Race to Save the World
Briefly, I think the book is a triumph.
scottaaronson.blog 7 Oct 2019
Recommends Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
So my advice is this: buy Pinker's book and read it.
scottaaronson.blog 22 Mar 2018
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Loved Inadequate Equilibria
I do have two criticisms of the book, both relatively minor compared to what I loved about it.
scottaaronson.blog 16 Nov 2017
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