–“Q: Curt: Do you work with people in robotics or self driving cars?”–
No but I’ve been working with AI since the 70s, and developed the fist AI/Expert system in law in the 80s, and before I became ill was working on a ‘universal application’ with an AI advisor, and so I have a deep understanding of the problem and solution.
I just didn’t (and hardly anyone did) expect that brute forcing the structure of existence by massive training on language would produce it.
I assumed like everyone else (and certainly like Tesla and self-driving-cars) that we would build up like the brain from a world model, movement, and navigation, into embodiment, from which language would emerge as an interface.
That this whole thing worked backwards (or at least is heading toward meeting in the middle between self driving and self piloting and linguistic brute force) is just an extraordinarily unexpected development.
But an extraordinary development that is coming much earlier than expected and I’m little concerned, (at least in economics and politics) it’s much earlier than we’re ready for.
NOTE: I say this as I use Perpelxity(Research), Elicit (Research Journal for a given topic), GPT4+ (Most of all because it knows my work, and can write in my style), and Claude Opus (Some writing advice, some better phrasing and framing) pretty much all day every day because it simply makes my life so much easier, and because I can test my arguments against the AI before I post or publish them. 😉
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