zacharylipton

Hi Jessica. Nice post and I agree with many of your points. Certainly, I believe—as you do—that a number of bad actors are wielding the specter of AGI sloppily and irresponsibly, either to consciously defraud people or on account of buying into something that speaks more to the messianic than to science. Perhaps ironically, one frequent debate that I have had with Gary in the past is that while he is vocally critical of exuberance over deep learning, he is himself partial to speaking rosily of nearish-term AGI, and of claiming progress (or being on the verge of progress) towards it. On the other hand, I am considerably more... (read 512 more words →)