Tag: consciousness
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I disagree. Beyond ’10 myths’ of AI in education
In this post, I critique a recent paper on AI myths in education, arguing that it presents unfounded ‘myths’ without evidence and uses outdated studies to support its claims. The author’s tendency to conflate different AI concepts is also disappointing and unhelpful, and the article fails to clarify important ideas about AI in education.
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Comment: The danger of AI is weirder than you think.
AI can be really destructive and not know it. So the AIs that recommend new content in Facebook, in YouTube, they’re optimized to increase the number of clicks and views. And unfortunately, one way that they have found of doing this is to recommend the content of conspiracy theories or bigotry. The AIs themselves don’t…
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Comment: Will robots have rights in the future?
If we get to create robots that are also capable of feeling pain then that will be somewhere else that we have to push the circle of moral concern backwards because I certainly think we would have to include them in our moral concern once we’ve actually created beings with capacities, desires, wants, enjoyments, miseries…