Pedro Domingos
Portuguese computer scientist; professor emeritus of computer science and engineering at the University of Washington. Author of The Master Algorithm (2015) and the novel 2040 (2024); writes essays and posts on machine learning and against restrictive AI regulation.
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Their wordsResearch funding is badly broken. Scientists spend a large fraction of their time writing grant proposals, which are largely speculative fiction.
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Their wordsScientific research is now an industry, for better or worse, and it should be funded like any other industry: by results.
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A pay-per-publication model would increase innovation and decrease waste in research funding.
Their wordsPay-per-pub, as we may call this approach, will unleash a wave of innovation in research funding, increasing the collective intelligence of the system while decreasing waste.
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Their wordsAnd as I explain below, the lessons that members of the AI community have learned in this regard can be generalized to other professional subcultures.
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Their wordsThe real Achilles's Heel of the cancel crowd is its short attention span.
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Artificial intelligence is unlikely to turn against humans because algorithms lack their own will.
Their wordsBut that is unlikely to happen because they have no will of their own.
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The progress of artificial intelligence will eventually plateau due to the laws of physics.
Their wordsThe progress of AI, like the progress of everything else, will eventually plateau.
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Their wordsWithin a decade or so each one of us will probably have a "digital double," an AI companion that will be even more indispensable than our smartphones are today.
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