alt Hacker NewsI think AI may be the salvation of mankind. The humans in charge don't 'scale' well when their authority expands to billions of people. Humans just can't resist flattening the data and using notions and biases to make decisions that don't fit well.
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I don't know, for me the idea of handing over the reins of humanity to artificial intelligence still sounds dubious
I think it could work quite well if you don't get over ambitious with it. Claude with a publicly available prompt to follow a sensible publicly available and voted on might do better than the orange wonder.
Oh the Hitchhikers guide is also a good movie. 42
It’s fascinating to watch the depth of True Belief increase as the obvious signs of impending financial doom increase as well. Reminds me of Festinger’s work with the comet cult, although I suppose the “getting paid to believe” aspect is stronger here.
LLMs are distilled bias. Its not like they're a classical AI being of pure logic.