Bill Gates accuses the tech industry of knowingly downplaying AI's risks because too much money is at stake.

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1361810/bill-gates-accuses-the-tech-industry-of-knowingly-downplaying-ai-s-risks-because-too-muc

www.gatesnotes.com/a-turbulent-ai-era-and-critical-choices-to-make

“AI for the first time can replace or exceed human cognition.” 🤣

No.

Maybe if you chose one tiny sliver of human cognition like memory and isolate it, but cognition overall? No chance. LLM tech is a database inference machine. Some uses? Yes. 1/3 of the worlds stock market wealth invested in it? Dumb.

Not many years ago, Bill Gates said that climate change was the most important issue facing the world.

I guess that’s solved now, because he now says how we handle AI use and access has taken the mantle as the most important issue the world’s facing.

This is just more AI cooker stuff from a billionaire octagonarian.

Maybe if you chose one tiny sliver of human cognition like memory and isolate it

But if we’re playing that game then computers exceeded human cognition 80 years ago when ENIAC replaced human computers at doing arithmetic. If you count mechanical computers then it’s 1000 years ago when mechanical tools were used to perform astronomy calculations.

Generative AI hasn’t produced anything that exceeds human capability in any field. It’s probably impossible for it to exceed human capability, since it’s a statistical model of human output.