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        Date: 2024-03-16 06:20:09+00:00
        From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk>
        Subject: no one knows

In the latest London Review of Books, 46.6 (21 March):

Paul Taylor, "AI Doomerism" (title on the online cover page), or
"Llamas, Pizzas, Mandolins" (at the beginning of the article). 
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n06/paul-taylor/llamas-pizzas-mandolins
Taylor reviews two books:

The Coming Wave: Technology, Power and the 21st Century’s Greatest Dilemma
by Mustafa Suleyman with Michael Bhaskar (Bodley Head)
and
The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration and Discovery at the Dawn of AI
by Fei-Fei Li (Flatiron)

There is much here to be concerned with--and I don't mean merely
worried, rather engaged more in respect of our disciplines than tends to
be the case. 

Given Taylor's knowledge of the field(s) involved, I think the most 
significant sentence in this article is: "No one knows what will happen 
next."

Yours,
WM


--
Willard McCarty,
Professor emeritus, King's College London;
Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews;  Humanist
www.mccarty.org.uk


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