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"An artificial intelligence smarter than humans" doesn't even make sense as a concept unless you're literally a character in a sci-fi
Ah yes, "intelligence," that extremely uhh well-defined attribute of a person's psyche that can certainly be captured along a single linear scale
Imagine they took some other ill-defined cluster of personal attributes and said that a computer would outdo humans at it
"In one year, computers will be more spiritual than humans"
@researchfairy
Tech bros: We should go all in on STEM education, kids don't need useless antiquated liberal arts subjects in today's world
Also tech bros: This computer is conscious, intelligent, and speaks the truth, three things that are notoriously easy to define and don't have entire subfields of philosophy dedicated to them!
@bujold @researchfairy I'm down for going all in on STEM, but we need to go all in on the rest. In any case its not STEM: its the business bros.
@bujold @researchfairy as someone with a PhD in a STEM field, it's kinda horrifying how little emphasis we put on ethics throughout our studies
Also tech bros: We've created AI! Now let's use it to create all the art we've been saying is useless and pointless!