Can we build AI without losing control over it? | Sam Harris

[abaris]

Exactly. He really is like a substitute charismatic religious leader for atheists. He proclaims judgement about things on which he has no expertise, experience or knowledge and his adherents follow him blindly without question.

For some he is. For me he's the William Lane Craig of atheism. Brilliant rhetoric, little substance.

And here the sheer basics of any piece of technology were up for debate. These basics won't change over time. There will always be the need for some kind of casing, for some kind of processing power and most of all energy.

That's only scratching the surface, since, I guess, hardly anyone is aware of the amount of processing power and storeage necessary to simulate something like a brain that interactively reacts and learns from any kind of situation that's thrown at it and not just a small enclosed environment for special purposes. Apart from the need to store everyb bit of informmation without overwriting another one. And with complexity comes the need for constant maintanance.

But I think, they don't even care. They just love the premisse and what Harris turns it into. Asking questions is blasphemy for some and a nuisance.