Infrastructure

I do not fear the existential risk of super-intelligent AI (artificial intelligence). It’s NS (natural stupidity) that scares the hell out of me.

~ Grady Brooch

“As a species, humanity, we have changed up our mobility infrastructure multiple times. In the early 1800s, it was steam trains. We had to do enormous changes to our infrastructure. We had to put flat rails right across countries. When we started adopting automobiles around the turn from the 19th to the 20th century, we changed the roads. We changed the laws. People could no longer walk in the middle of the road like they used to. We changed the infrastructure. When you go from trains that are driven by a person to self-driving trains, such as we see in airports and a few out there, there’s a whole change in infrastructure so that you can’t possibly have a person walking on the tracks. We’ve tried to make this transition [to self-driving cars] without changing infrastructure. You always need to change infrastructure if you’re going to do a major change.” ~ Rodney Brooks

Just Calm Down About GPT-4 Already: And stop confusing performance with competence, says Rodney Brooks via IEEE Spectrum