Steven Novella
Academic clinical neurologist at Yale School of Medicine. Host of The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe podcast since 2005, co-founder of the Science-Based Medicine blog, and author of the NeuroLogica blog on neuroscience, pseudoscience and critical thinking.
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Their wordsBut I have not seen a credible case from those arguing for near-term or inevitable AI doom.
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Their wordsFurther, it seems that this kind of behavior is a manifestation of the training data, and it can often be likewise trained out of the models. So yes, there is a potential risk here, but it appears to be a completely manageable risk.
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Their wordsI think we will ultimately see the same for AI - we will manage the risks and reap the benefits.
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Their wordsHistorically whenever politicians try to meddle in those details, to "micromanage" what experts should be doing, the results range from bad to catastrophic.
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Their wordsThis is generational damage that is being done, like the kind that was done by Lysenkoism.
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Trump will likely seek other ways to exert political will on federal funding across all agencies.
Their wordsBut it is also likely that Trump will just seek other ways to exert his political will on any federal funding, across all agencies.
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The cold reading technique can create an illusion of anomalous information through deception.
Their wordsIt is a mentalism technique, that can produce an incredibly impressive illusion of anomalous information - but it is all a deception.
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Their wordsWhat it does mean is that science is something that people do.
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Their wordsAt the same time, the very nature of science means that the findings of science are constrained by reality.
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Their wordsBut I think it should be obvious that you cannot explain evolutionary biology with physics alone.
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