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  • The definition of understanding they use is very shallow compared to how most would define it. Failure to complete a task consistently when numbers are changed, even when they don’t effect the answer shows a lack of real understanding to most. Asking a model the sheet drying question for example will give different results depending on what numbers you use. Better models are better at generalizing but are still far from demonstrating what most consider to be real understanding.



  • Tech companies say they are putting in place systems to prevent AI being used for criminal or other malign purposes, and insist the new technology will create more jobs than it destroys

    Automation doesn’t create more jobs than it replaces, if it did there would be no point. In some cases it removes bottlenecks which allows for greater scale which in turn creates jobs, but these new jobs often require different skillsets from the ones displaced.

    You’re not really allowed to criticize them for this when your economic system encourages this exact behavior.