Arthur C. Clarke and the existential crisis of AI

[confused2]

..even when dealing with AI

I'd say "especially when dealing with (bozo) AI" .. without access to good sources and a deliberate policy of 'forgetting' sources you might be better off without it .. and it may become increasingly difficult to get round it.

[Syne]

That's why I think we're going to hit peak AI soon... at least in terms of knowledge. The effort to remove the dross will not be cost effective.

[confused2]

Years ago someone (rpenner) claimed the Internet had kicked open the gates to knowledge .. I think we've found a way to close the gates.
Universities have always 'colluded' and that is most likely the way forward - we just get the dross. When I was a technician working on submarines my supervisor went off to talk to Russians working on the same subject - and is also how I came to meet guys from NASA. My supervisor did the maths and I did the electronics.

Here's a response from what is now an early AI - I don't think they have improved --

I know enough about Raspberry Picos and MicroPython to be dangerous. What do you need help with? Just try not to expect too much competence;

[Syne]

AI admitting it's not that competent is quite the improvement. I wonder how much telling it it was shite it took to train that model.

[Magical Realist]

The capacity for self-doubt and of being skeptical of one's own information is a very human trait. It might even result in AI having a Cartesian grasp of itself as a thinking being in itself in a world where everything else is dubious. The emergence of introspective awareness. Perhaps the very first inklings of a conscious entity.

[Syne]

It's all just model training. There is no actual self-awareness/doubt involved.