Science

I generally am skeptical about a subset of AI scientists because they sound like hucksters.

When the science is above my head, I try to guage the humans selling something and except a few people like Turing, Norbert Weiner and Yan LeCun I generally find AI scientists less credible than your average scientist in the natural sciences or medicine.

I even like Yan LeCun’s work. I downloaded a piece on Jepa and some less technical work to skim when my mind is less preoccupied.

But what I find concerning is this effort to separate mal ai from human accountability. I bet they’ll first illicitly deploy AI without permission and then say that people who didn’t even know they were dealing with such garbage are responsible for “how their behaviors trained the AI”. Wtf?
People aren’t supposed to change their lives around someone else’s rubbish agents and LLMs and voice assistants etc.

And some of it is like Musk’s “simulation theory” ( ), which if not debunked by Zohar Ringel etc highlights the difference between the glib way these fraudulent guys like Bostrom, Musk etc talk and think and how actual scientists painstakingly work to understand reality in mundane ways.

It reminds of my mom comparing Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot and his “little grey cells” with which he just “solves problems” without leaving his armchair versus Freeman Wills Croft’s Inspector French and his painstaking, systemic use of police procedure.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inspector_French]