I would not characterize Tao’s usual takes on AI as particularly good (unless you compare with a relatively low baseline).
He’s been overall pretty conservative and mostly stuck to reasonable claims about current AI. So there’s not much to criticize in particular, but it has come at the cost of him not appreciating the possible/likely trajectories of where things are going, which I think misses the forest for the trees.
I would not characterize Tao’s usual takes on AI as particularly good (unless you compare with a relatively low baseline).
He’s been overall pretty conservative and mostly stuck to reasonable claims about current AI. So there’s not much to criticize in particular, but it has come at the cost of him not appreciating the possible/likely trajectories of where things are going, which I think misses the forest for the trees.
Oh, yeah, he’s not superintelligence-pilled or anything. I was implicitly comparing with a relatively low baseline, yes.