#nicholascarr — Public Fediverse posts

“The intelligence of an AI model roughly equals the log of the resources used to train and run it” // #SamAltman

To maintain a linear path of improvement in the performance of today’s neural-network-based AI models requires an exponential increase in resources. Ever larger inputs achieve ever smaller gains. But people like Altman remain absolutely committed to making those escalating resource investments, no matter the monetary or social cost.

#NicholasCarr #Bostrom #AI
https://www.newcartographies.com/p/is-ai-the-paperclip

🤖💡Oh great, just what we needed: AI-generated lies that are *so* compelling, they could win an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay. Nicholas Carr bravely unravels this digital deception while we sit back and wonder if he’s just upset his toaster knows more about human nature than he does. 🥴📚
https://behavioralscientist.org/what-happens-when-ai-generated-lies-are-more-compelling-than-the-truth/ #AIgeneratedLies #DigitalDeception #NicholasCarr #OscarWorthy #HumanNature #HackerNews #ngated

> “A compression of time characterizes the life of the century now closing,” wrote #JamesGleick in.. #Faster. . Given what we know about the variability of our time sense, it seems clear that information and communication technologies would have a particularly strong effect on our perception of time.. Society’s “activity rhythm” has never been so harried. Impatience is a contagion spread from gadget to gadget.
https://www.roughtype.com/?p=6143
#NicholasCarr #Rapidification #ActivityRhythm #Impatience