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"The past is kind of there to fool you if you think this technology is similar to the other ones." According to Bill Gates, AI is fundamentally different from other technologies like the microprocessor, the internet, or electricity. A few thoughts I had on this: 1. As we have seen with technologies of the past, they first eat the obvious tasks, and then raise the value of the people who can handle the technology and steer it to show never-before-seen results. That's the new value that gets…
firesidealpha@firesidealphaAug 27
Bill Gates says he's staking whatever reputation he has on AI being the one technology that truly breaks from history "Anyone who analogizes AI as a technology to other technologies is missing that this time is different. And saying something is different, there's a very high bar for that." "But I'm staking whatever reputation I have saying this time is different, that something that exceeds human cognition, not just in one area like farming or mathematics, but across the board, and then in a few years' time will be coupled with fairly low-cost, quite capable humanoid robotics." "That is a more profound change to our economy and jobs than anything in my lifetime by a dramatic amount." "And so the past is kind of there to fool you if you think this technology is similar to other ones, some of which I had the privilege to be involved with, the microprocessor, personal computer, internet." "And even though you have to be careful with those a bit, overwhelmingly those were good technologies, and overwhelmingly that led to net job creation."