Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦
Hacker, activist, free-softie ◈ techie luddite ◈ formerly information security and infrastructure at https://isnic.is/ and https://occrp.org/ ◈ my opinions are my own etc.
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Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦@mstdn.socialto aborcja@szmer.info•Legalna Aborcja: Kto mieszka w Polsce ten się w cyrku nie śmieje. 🤡🎪1·7 months ago@kobietywsieci no ale ej no lepiej jest no przecież Tusk u władzy nie Kaczyński to lepiej jest lepiej bo jakby mogło lepiej nie być jak jest lepiej no nie?
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Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦@mstdn.socialto Technology@beehaw.org•Don’t believe the hype: AGI is far from inevitable1·10 months ago> We don’t know what we’re doing, and we should really sort that out.
True. But the bigger problem is not the mythical and hypothetical “AGI/ASI” stuff that maybe will happen one day, but very real harms already being caused by misuse and misapplication of algorithmic and “AI”-based systems.
So that’s what I think we should be focusing on instead.
Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦@mstdn.socialto Technology@beehaw.org•Don’t believe the hype: AGI is far from inevitable1·10 months ago@lightstream I wouldn’t, because I am not the one making claims about “AGI” being just around the corner.
That’s the thing, OpenAI and others benefiting from the hype make extraordinary claims – along the lines of “human-level AGI is just around the corner” – so they are the ones that need to define their terms.
You are asking all the right questions here (“which human are we talking about”), the point is that these questions should be answered by those who make such extraordinary claims.
Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦@mstdn.socialto Technology@beehaw.org•Don’t believe the hype: AGI is far from inevitable2·10 months ago@JayDee AI as the wide, specialized field you mention makes no claims about building anything with *actual* human-like intelligence, I feel. People who understand how the math and code work in these systems know better than to do that.
And yes, “AGI” debate is a philosophical one. The problem is it is not recognized as such, because of the AI hype. People seem to think that AGI is “inevitable” and “just around the corner”, because salespeople from companies that benefit from that hype say so.
Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦@mstdn.socialto Technology@beehaw.org•Don’t believe the hype: AGI is far from inevitable1·10 months ago@JayDee I didn’t say you are, I clarified in my later post. Sorry, should have been clearer.
I am vehemently agreeing with you here, in fact.
The context is the conversation above in the thread, where it was claimed that “AGI” is “pretty inevitable”.
And the point I’ve been making is:
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we don’t have a good definition of what “intelligence” is, in the sense presumably used above;
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if we decide to use a somewhat simplistic definition, the whole “AI” issue stops being all that exciting.
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Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦@mstdn.socialto Technology@beehaw.org•Don’t believe the hype: AGI is far from inevitable2·10 months ago@JayDee so two things.
First: sure, we can redefine words in any way we want, but then:
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talking about “AI” becomes much less interesting if it merely means “walking a decision tree based on data coming from external sensors”
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the whole talk about “intelligence” becomes a bait-and-switch, as the conversation started with the term “intelligence” being used in the general sense we tend to apply to people and some animals.
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Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦@mstdn.socialto Technology@beehaw.org•Don’t believe the hype: AGI is far from inevitable6·10 months ago> A chess engine is intelligent in one thing: playing chess
No. That’s not how the adjective “intelligent” works, outside of marketing drivel of course (“intelligent washing machine” etc).
> Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is the artificial version of human cognitive capabilities
Can you give a definition of “intelligence” or “human cognitive abilities” that would allow us to somehow unequivocably establish that “X is intelligent” or “X has human cognitive abilities”?
Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦@mstdn.socialto Technology@beehaw.org•Don’t believe the hype: AGI is far from inevitable2·10 months ago@ContrarianTrail @JRepin and finally, there’s a question of whether we actually decide to pursue it.
Nuclear power was supposed to be the “inevitable” power source for all of humanity mere 50 years ago. But at some point we decided not to pursue that goal.
Cryptocurrencies were supposed to be “inevitable” replacement for the banking system.
And we *have* cryptocurrencies and nuclear power. These exist. As opposed to whatever nebulous concept hides beneath “AGI”.
Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦@mstdn.socialto Technology@beehaw.org•Don’t believe the hype: AGI is far from inevitable13·10 months ago@ContrarianTrail @JRepin well I guess somebody would first need to clearly define what “AGI” is. Currently it’s just “whatever the techbro hypers want it to be”.
And then there’s the matter (ha!) of your assumption that we understand all laws of physics necessary that “matter obeys”, or that we can reasonably understand them. That’s a pretty strong assumption: individual human minds are pretty limited and communication adds overhead, and we might reach a point where we’re stuck.
Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦@mstdn.socialtoPhotography@fedia.io•High Voltage Transmission Pylon, Near Tracy, CA, 2010.1·11 months ago@[email protected] you must construct additional pylons
Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦@mstdn.socialto Środowisko naturalne i inne zielone sprawy@szmer.info•Niemożliwe staje się faktem. Paliwa kopalne dają Europie mniej prądu niż wiatr i słońce - Ziemia na rozdrożu3·1 year ago@dj1936 @harcesz
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/true-north/2017/jul/17/neoliberalism-has-conned-us-into-fighting-climate-change-as-individuals
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/aug/23/big-oil-coined-carbon-footprints-to-blame-us-for-their-greed-keep-them-on-the-hookWięc owszem, #takbyło. Ale to nie oznacza, że ten termin nie jest przydatny. Jest. To jest ważne, by nasz osobisty ślad węglowy zmniejszać, bycie go świadomym oznacza, że jesteśmy bardziej świadomi ogólnie w temacie. I większa szansa, że będziemy cisnąć o regulacje.
Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦@mstdn.socialto Technology@beehaw.org•'LLM-free' is the new '100% organic' - Creators Are Fighting AI Anxiety With an ‘LLM-Free’ Movement16·1 year ago@Marsupial you might want to read up on Luddites. Here’s a good place to start:
https://www.techwontsave.us/episode/187_the_real_history_of_the_luddites_w_brian_merchant
Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦@mstdn.socialto Środowisko naturalne i inne zielone sprawy@szmer.info•Głos Polski zdecydował. Kluczowe głosowanie odwołane1·1 year ago@obywatelle hmm… nie wiem! Ale dziwne w istocie. PIng @szmer
Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦@mstdn.socialto Technology@beehaw.org•Threads Launches in the European Union8·2 years ago@Mysteriarch @fer0n fool me once, shame on you; but go right ahead and fool me twice or thrice, why not!
Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦@mstdn.socialto Linux@lemmy.ml•Any experience with teaching kids Linux?1·2 years ago@maxprime amazing, thank you for sharing!
Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦@mstdn.socialto Technology@beehaw.org•Google Chrome will limit ad blockers starting June 20241·2 years ago@DolphinMath correct. But Vaultwarden is not the official thing. Not saying it’s bad, just something to keep in mind.
Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦@mstdn.socialto Technology@beehaw.org•Google Chrome will limit ad blockers starting June 20240·2 years ago@xenspidey @DolphinMath one note though, BitWarden requires MSSQL (you read that right, Microsoft SQL Server).
@didleth no właśnie chyba trzeba będzie napisać, ech.
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