“Most articles seem to default to either full embrace of AI companies’ claims or blanket skepticism, with relatively few spotlighting the strongest version of arguments on both sides of a debate. ” Never agreed with anything as strongly in my life. Both these things are bad and we don’t need to choose a side between them. And note that the issue here isn’t about these things being “extreme”. An article that actually tries to make a case for foom by 2027, or “this is all nonsense, it’s just fancy autocomplete and overfitting on meaningless benchmarks” could easily be excellent. The problem is people not giving reasons for their stances, and either re-writing PR, or just expressing social distaste for Silicon Valley, as a substitute.
“Most articles seem to default to either full embrace of AI companies’ claims or blanket skepticism, with relatively few spotlighting the strongest version of arguments on both sides of a debate. ” Never agreed with anything as strongly in my life. Both these things are bad and we don’t need to choose a side between them. And note that the issue here isn’t about these things being “extreme”. An article that actually tries to make a case for foom by 2027, or “this is all nonsense, it’s just fancy autocomplete and overfitting on meaningless benchmarks” could easily be excellent. The problem is people not giving reasons for their stances, and either re-writing PR, or just expressing social distaste for Silicon Valley, as a substitute.