Steven Pinker is by far my favorite public intellectual because he is so persuasive and judicious in his choices for what is important. I've been a fan since "How the Mind Works" was first published. I don't agree with everything he prioritizes, or more accurately, with what he does not consider important, but I can count on him providing a persuasive argument. The only person I can think of mentioning in the same category is Bret Weinstein, as far as ability to tell a story and construct a compelling argument.
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Id rarely say this of Pinker, but i don't think he's thought long enough about how AI could do serious damage once its more powerful and widely accessible to malicious actors.
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@@jmarty1000 Ok maybe they do but apparently not in a way that can make current AI drive a car from a to be in the general case like humans can. Also what feed back is there when an AI is completely stuck in a task?
It's painfully obvious that Hoffman is way out of his depth here and asks questions a person with MSc degree in Cognitive Science could answer with ease. Also, one can easily see Pinker realises a couple minutes into the interview it was a mistake to accept an invitation from a guy who has no knowledge of the domain in question but thinks he does. I advise next time to do background reading and read all the books written by the interviewees to get a decent grasp of the domain. Furthermore, the continuous interruptions, what's the point of that? Turned off half way through, as couldn't stomach these interruptions anymore.
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Dear lord.. first he says he was surprised by the capabilities of GPT4 then he says humans are not very good at assessing risk, then he says AI being an existential threat is nonsense. Embarrassing. It is people like him that will have the blood of humanity on their hands. Shame.
Well said! Even if Steven Pinker has written useful books and spoken well elsewhere, this is a mess and he tramples his host's better understanding of AI. It seems neuroscience is popping now, independent of ML. Look up Alipasha Vaziri work with Light Bead Microscopy. No guarantees but if Yoshua Bengio Attractors / dynamical systems models come together with that somehow, what a singularity. And hallucinations do not show that AI is stupid. Rather the opposite, as explained by Geoff Hinton and many others Please get Yoshua Bengio or comparable on with Steven Pinker next time!
Pinker is trying hard to look like Einstein, unfortunatly he has no original work and the work he is best known of (his popular books) are all derivative.
Such a silly statement and sentiment. Pinker has done amazing original work in language learning and in 3-D Vision. But, yes, his biggest talent is explaining such complex and amazing phenomena as intelligence and consciousness, and in this he succeeds. And we're the beneficiaries of this.
