Trying to get researchers to extrapolate even a little beyond what current systems are capable of, much less beyond what the smartest humans are capable of, is like pulling teeth.
What if it were faster? What if it were smarter? What if that specific quirky failure mode didn’t hold? What if these changes were substantial enough that the emergent entity behaved in a radically different manner? Had radically different affordances?
Too much to think about. A helpless shrug. A flurry of weak arguments for why we don’t have to examine this possibility, pulled like wool over their eyes, hiding the flash of fear. Fear if you’re lucky, if you get past the dismissal for even an instant.
I’m thinking about the future, but it seems very very few other people are.
Trying to get researchers to extrapolate even a little beyond what current systems are capable of, much less beyond what the smartest humans are capable of, is like pulling teeth.
What if it were faster? What if it were smarter? What if that specific quirky failure mode didn’t hold? What if these changes were substantial enough that the emergent entity behaved in a radically different manner? Had radically different affordances?
Too much to think about. A helpless shrug. A flurry of weak arguments for why we don’t have to examine this possibility, pulled like wool over their eyes, hiding the flash of fear. Fear if you’re lucky, if you get past the dismissal for even an instant.
I’m thinking about the future, but it seems very very few other people are.