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In an ideal world, one has a problem first and finds the best solution for it afterward. However, in the world of AI, very often people first bring the solution to the table—AI—without even knowing what they’ll do with it.
work culture is a set of core values that specifically help attain business goals. In the case of engineers working with AI, the ideal work culture would welcome admitting mistakes.
if running a computer program is what creates consciousness, then we could claim anything running a computer program to be sentient. If Google’s AI is conscious, then why isn’t a thermostat conscious? After all, it also runs a computer program. David Chalmers argued that thermostats are likely to be conscious, although “we will likely be unable to sympathetically imagine these experiences any better than a blind person can imagine sight, or than a human can imagine what it is like to be a bat.”76
Building more powerful machine learning models would simply be doing more of the same thing.