Thinking machines, I say no, and the genie is out of the bottle and won't be going back anyway, re: open weights, real utility, and China. We do need to have more rational discussions, eg. the doomerism is out of hand and there are some serious social implications I hear few talk about, but Ai is more about how we choose to use it than whether we will.
The social implication will be that there will be that there will be population decline and more resources. It is not doom and gloom.
--Silicon Valley/VC
The Tyranny of Meritocracy - Michael Sandel
This is on my list of books to purchase for next time I'm at the store. Been watching some of his lectures and interviews, and at the core, part of the problem is this incentive structure we created through meritocracy. That common social convention would have it be that those at the top deserve their earnings, they deserve our reverence and deference, similarly for those at the bottom, though shunning and shame is their reward. But what we get wrong is that there are things beyond our own (their) control. Those at the top would not be, were it not also for some luck along the way and the contributions of a great number of other people. Likewise, those at the bottom are not there only of their own doing and also need the help of others to rise from their circumstance.
One example that most seem to connect with is targeted advertising. This is where the search and social media feeds ended up following the incentives. The goal was to maximize profit, which mean selling ads, and humans unleashed an algorithm to do that, which followed the incentives and hill climbed to push users' anxiety and fear buttons, because that drove up engagement and ad dollars. Search was a bit different, but followed the same pattern. Today's search results are so very bad and largely gamed.
If you are from a relatively affluent nation you have a deceased birth rate. Imposing it on others is a kind of ethnic cleansing.
> and ban of thinking machines?
We don't have thinking machines yet, and typically you can't legislate against innovation.
Children are core part of evolutionairy progress and those thinking machines can help everyone to reason about how to rise those kids...