Elon Musk · Sam Altman · Dario Amodei · The Guardian Technology
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A “centaur”, in automation theory, is a person assisted by a machine, and a “reverse centaur”, hero of Cory Doctorow’s new book, The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI, is a “human who is conscripted into acting as an assistant to a machine”.
Key facts
- The only thing worse than a $1.4tn bubble is a $2.4tn bubble, which they're headed for,” he says
- Doctorow, 54, is in Los Angeles; he divides his time between there and London (his British wife, Alice Taylor, runs the BBC’s AI Creative Lab, which isn’t ironic but it would slow them down to explain
- When the reporter wrote this book [last year], it was a $700bn bubble
- A “centaur”, in automation theory, is a person assisted by a machine, and a “reverse centaur”, hero of Cory Doctorow’s new book, The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI, is a “human
Summary
Wiping out the world of work, and with it their ability to sustain ourselves and live autonomous lives, is only the beginning, if you listen to AI’s architects. Doctorow bursts into their video-call conversation as if they're already two hours in, his delivery puckish and urgent. AI cannot and will never render them obsolete, Doctorow says. That’s probably the most important thing to get across.” A machine has been invented that is good at building sentences by predicting what word would usually come next, and they invest it with meaning, insight, omnipotence.