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2040Their words
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.
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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
Their words 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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precisely because smart people do devote brain-cycles to these possibilities, the rest of us have correspondingly less need to.
Their words now
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).
Their words 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.
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.
1 January 2022
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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.
7 October 2019
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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.
22 March 2018
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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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