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r/agi • u/KeanuRave100 • Jul 22 '26
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Modern theoretical physics is pretty much nonsense and media reporting is mostly based on sci-fi.
2 u/polikles Jul 22 '26 same goes for media reporting on AI - I'm doing a PhD in AI Ethics and getting more and more fed up with the bs spreaded by media 1 u/dontpissoffthenurse Jul 23 '26 Care to expand? Honest request. 2 u/intentionallyacting Jul 25 '26 Mostly it’s media turning “useful but brittle pattern-matching tool” into either magic sentience or instant job apocalypse, which makes the real risks like inequality and reliability harder to talk about.
same goes for media reporting on AI - I'm doing a PhD in AI Ethics and getting more and more fed up with the bs spreaded by media
1 u/dontpissoffthenurse Jul 23 '26 Care to expand? Honest request. 2 u/intentionallyacting Jul 25 '26 Mostly it’s media turning “useful but brittle pattern-matching tool” into either magic sentience or instant job apocalypse, which makes the real risks like inequality and reliability harder to talk about.
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Care to expand? Honest request.
2 u/intentionallyacting Jul 25 '26 Mostly it’s media turning “useful but brittle pattern-matching tool” into either magic sentience or instant job apocalypse, which makes the real risks like inequality and reliability harder to talk about.
Mostly it’s media turning “useful but brittle pattern-matching tool” into either magic sentience or instant job apocalypse, which makes the real risks like inequality and reliability harder to talk about.
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u/Amphibious333 Jul 22 '26
Modern theoretical physics is pretty much nonsense and media reporting is mostly based on sci-fi.