Mikael Svanstrom

I recently finished reading the book "If anyone builds it, everyone dies". The author's make the case for restricting current AI research and deployment of models until we have a better grasp of the technology as a whole.  They suggest that "...sufficiently smart AIs will develop goals of their own that put them in conflict with us — and that if it comes to conflict, an artificial superintelligence would crush us." We can all read that and shrug our shoulders at the hyperbolic title, but...

I’ve just finished reading Max Bennett’s book “A brief history of intelligence”. It details the origin of intelligence from microbial organisms to current day and later in the book draws parallels to AI. It defines five key breakthroughs; the most recent one is Speaking/Language. And at one point in this book, Bennett states that a key aspect of how we’ve become so successful as a species is how we transfer information. The written language is key to this. It allows us to transmit an almost...

I recently saw a Quora thread named: ‘Is it just me or is ChatGPT become the best therapist you’ve ever had?” It went on to describe their experience and many people chimed in with similar experiences. One reply stated: “Yoooo! Me, too. I’ve spent literally THOUSANDS for my therapist and I swear the advice is the same she gives me. Like, I’ll use Chat first and then have my session with her a few days later. She’ll give the exact same advice! This keeps up much longer and I’m thinking I might...