I feel like the statement "AI labs are specifically trying to create machines that can outperform humans in all economically useful cognitive tasks and don't think they're super far away" hasn't really inspired the public to go "Hey wait a minute" in the way I would've expected
I'm very far from an AI doomer, but still think AI seems like a "big deal" and it's kind of surprising it's not more talked about
@AndyMasley The public see that correctly as way exaggerated bravado.
@AndyMasley It’s seems similar to the emergence of the internet, although much faster. Still, there could be some parallels between how people reacted to the internet changing everything and how they react to AI.
@AndyMasley @NateSilver538 When we see something that actually looks like AGI and not just an LLM with more compute and training data, maybe we’ll start to get excited.
@AndyMasley I think that's a clearer way to say it than what they've actually been saying
@AndyMasley people think linear technologies move in exponential
@AndyMasley @NateSilver538 They are known for massive overstatements and hype.