@emilymbender Years ago, I set up LDA and ran some jobs through it in preparation for a law review article that I never got around to completing. At that time there were two other pieces out there that made assertions about law based on its output—factual, conclusive claims, despite the *developer* of the system (David Bliss, IIRC) clearly stating that it only produced statistical correlations based on pattern matching, so you shouldn't do that. The AI hype is through-the-looking-glass deja vu.

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Are there any systems left by which to actually hold anyone accountable, though? That's the part of this that terrifies me: tens of billions of dollars and who knows how many human hours of research being done by an unaccountable company for surely negative ends, and humankind has given up on placing any controls on capitalism that actually do anything.

If they do ever invent AGI, there's no possible positive outcome.

@emilymbender Greg Bear may be is a nice read for people into doom and simulated humans.

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All this ai soap opera is tech bro PR, IMO.

Besides: I don't fear ai. I fear capitalists and governments who intend to put human decisions in inhuman(e) hands.