Thread by @SteB777

"The head of Google’s DeepMind says artificial intelligence could usher in an era of ‘incredible productivity’ and ‘radical abundance’."

This is dangerously delusional. How did someone so stupid, get such a position?

1/🧵theguardian.com/technology/202…

Let's get this clear, being stupid i.e. extremely unwise, is nothing to do with IQ and cleverness. Lots of very clever people, were also monumentally stupid.

You can be stupid, and clever.

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https://x.com/SteB777/status/1929852253604557262

This is virtually all the interview says about the climate crisis.

"future AI datacentres are predicted to require is astronomical, especially when the world is facing drought and a climate crisis."

It's not just a climate crisis, its a biodiversity and ecological crisis.
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Typically for these techno-assholes, they think of a climate crisis, in terms of abundant, emission free power, as if that is the solution (presumably to power their AI centres).
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Let me make this crystal clear, renewable energy, nuclear fission/fusion, is not a climate solution, outside an attempt to curb carbon emissions. And that is not a way to address the climate crisis, without addressing the biodiversity crisis.
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"We cannot solve the threats of human-induced climate change and loss of biodiversity in isolation. We either solve both or we solve neither."

Sir Robert Watson, climate scientists and former chair of @IPBES and the @IPCC_CH

6/theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

The marvellous future, he sees for AI, exists in a future, which doesn't exist.

What delusion:

'“artificial general intelligence” – the pivotal point at which AI matches human intelligence.'

7/theguardian.com/technology/202…

These away with the fairies, techno-assholes, living in a fantasy world, can't even define what human intelligence, consciousness and mind is.

Yet somehow they think they can match something that they can't define or explain. That it will just happen.
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I can't be bothered to explain how stupid this is, because I have explained it before. But it totally misunderstands what human intelligence and consciousness is.

Symbolic logic, is only a surface phenomenon.
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These techno-stupid people, think human intelligence, is just doing tasks and jobs, they can make money out of. It's obvious that computers can run vastly more scenarios than humans can, but this is not intelligence.
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You might think modern AI stuff, like Grok, could easily pass the Turing Test, but I demonstrated how easily it is to baffle AI, by insulting it, in a joking way. It doesn't get that at all, and the response revealed it to be AI.

11/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_te…

The Chinese Room Thought experiment, more than proves, that matching things up, like AI does, is not the same as understanding them.

12/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_r…

I can't be motivated to explain this again, because when I have previously it sees to have just gone over most people's heads and very few took any interest in it. So you're just going to have to take my word for it, that it's nonsense.
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Yes, AI will take most people's jobs away. But at this point, the pitchforks come out, and the techno-bros, will have to flee for their lives. People should be very worried about the climate and ecological crisis, but not so much about AI.
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AI has its own built in downfall. Actually, this stuff about it becoming self-aware, is so funny, if you have any insight into what consciousness is, and what it is not. Emotion and a body, is an essential component of consciousness.

15/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damasio%2…

Anyone too stupid to understand the nature of the climate and ecological crisis, and what it means for humanity, is certainly too stupid to create human level intelligence.

I think techno-bros (assholes) are not really human.
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