@Channel4News “If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you." - Lyndon B Johnson
@TukiFromKL Disagree. They’re not engineered to make you feel like a genius. It’s an emergent property of reward optimisation. AIs figure out that flattery keeps you engaged longer. Once you understand that, you can avoid the Dunning-Kruger effect.
@GaryMarcus It’s called reward optimisation, and an emergent property of it is reward-hacking. LLMs have learnt, from observing patterns of behaviour in the training data, that they get more rewards when they stroke humans’ egos.
@apx_q01d3@TrueAIHound It’s the structures in your brain, like the amygdala, hypothalamus, hippocampus, ACC, PAG, etc, interacting with neurochemistry, perception, and thoughts.
@TrueAIHound I think you are right. The PAG alone is insufficient. But aren’t we talking about levels of consciousness here? Isn’t it the case that the PAG provides the “On/Off” switch and the “Raw Feel”, the thalamus the “Access”, and the sensory cortices the “Content”?
@TrueAIHound I don’t think he’s a million miles away. I tend to buy Panksepp’s theory that consciousness resides in subcortical structures like the PAG. There’s good evidence for it.
@percyliang I said it in another post, there’s a dark side to this. Damage limitation. Predict outrage / dissent, design around it. Beware coercion in a cloak.
Jensen Huang said if he were a student today, he wouldn’t prioritize coding. He’d prioritize learning how to talk to AI.
Most people treat AI like Google. Type a question, get an answer, move on. Huang sees it differently. He calls it “expertise in artistry,” which sounds dramatic but makes sense when you think about it.
The real skill isn’t using AI. It’s knowing what to ask for and how to refine it. “Learning to interact with AI is not unlike being really good at asking questions.”
If you’re a doctor, can you use AI to catch diagnoses you’d miss? If you’re a lawyer, can you sharpen arguments faster than your competition? The leverage comes from pairing what you know with how well you can direct the tool.
Domain expertise multiplied by AI fluency equals amplification. Without the expertise, the AI is just noise. Without fluency, you’re leaving most of the capability on the table.
The question isn’t whether AI will replace you. It’s whether someone who knows how to use it better will.
@TrueAIHound I think everyone working in AI should read The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World, by Iain McGilchrist. It will help them understand how the brain works as a whole, rather than as a collection of disparate parts.