Are human megastructures (capitalism, large corporations, governments, religious organizations) forms of AI?
They’re alien and difficult to understand. Hard to tell if they have their own motives, or if they’re reflecting some extracted set of beliefs from humans. They make leaps of action that individual humans can’t. They are at best semi-corrigible. Sounds very similar to LLMs to me.
edit: I know this isn’t a new thought, but it’s becoming more attractive to me as I think about more similarities. Groups do tend to hallucinate, both in policy that seems based on wrong assumptions, and in actual ludicrous statements.
Inspired by a thought I saw on Mastodon:
A running joke amongst my peers is that any AI news headline can replace “AI” with “capitalism” and remain 100% true.
To the extent that this is a valid comparison, it shows a pretty large problem with the idea that a newer/bigger AI can control and undo the effects of a previous one.
Are human megastructures (capitalism, large corporations, governments, religious organizations) forms of AI?
They’re alien and difficult to understand. Hard to tell if they have their own motives, or if they’re reflecting some extracted set of beliefs from humans. They make leaps of action that individual humans can’t. They are at best semi-corrigible. Sounds very similar to LLMs to me.
edit: I know this isn’t a new thought, but it’s becoming more attractive to me as I think about more similarities. Groups do tend to hallucinate, both in policy that seems based on wrong assumptions, and in actual ludicrous statements.
Inspired by a thought I saw on Mastodon:
To the extent that this is a valid comparison, it shows a pretty large problem with the idea that a newer/bigger AI can control and undo the effects of a previous one.
It’s like asking whether virus is a form of life. Whether the answer is yes or no, the fact remains that it is different from the other forms of life.
We can decide to call corporations “AI”, but it will not make them any more similar to LLMs.