Recent content by PeroK

That's funny, because I'm working on a new theory of microbiology that proves that all we currently think we know about microbiology is wrong ...

I guess your idea is to do the experiment with one photon. Record the impact location on the detector screen. Replace the detector screen with a new one. Repeat? If you do a physics degree, you can propose this as an experiment. QM predicts this will make no difference to the overall pattern...

That's a different sort of "infinity". That's essentially a type of singularity, where a calculation for something that should/must be finite results in an unbounded or undefined result. The simplest example is the function ##\dfrac 1 x##. That has a singularity at ##x = 0##. The function is...

I've never believed such general conspiracy theories. Climate change, COVID, Flat Earth, AI. It's all the same spurious argument that the "experts" are conspiring for some unknown reason. Many are independent computer scientists presenting the risks as they see them. In any case, as a...

Then why are leading experts in the field worried about AI capability? It's mad to think that you can prove anything of the sort. It's like proving that nuclear war is impossible. Or, proving that global warming can never exceed +1.5C. Something like that cannot be obvious. It cannot be...

Just today I caught the 139 Black Hole from St John's Wood to Baker Street. Well, actually, it was a London Transport bus, but same idea.

However, it's so much easier to sit in a chair and dream about unicorns than to study physics. Think of all those nasty equations and all that hard work.

Exactly!

I think you have a very narrow view of history. When the Roman Empire collapsed, that was effectively the end of western civilization for nearly a thousand years. They were called the Dark Ages. In any case, there is no law in history that says that human civilisation will endure...

Are we to base our hopes on what you believe? What if you are wrong?

If AI is more intelligent than your children, then it may learn how to control your children. A solar panel cannot do that. This is the whole debate. You appear to see humans as a supreme intelligence that cannot be outwitted. The debate must confront the risk that in the foreseeable future...

It also misses the point that AI is, by definition, an attempt to create something that is on a level with human intelligence. This makes it potentially different because if AI is successful, then we have two types of high intelligence. And, one of the risks is that we end up in conflict with...

So, you are saying there is no possibility that AI could be harmful. It's bound to be advantageous, because all previous technologies have been advantageous? There is no possibility that AI is different?

The threat from AI comes from the technology. It needs specific action related to the specific threat.

The issue is not only what AI can do in 2026. The issue is the speed of progress. The risk is real. And, this technology is developing at a time when, IMO, "government of the people" is under threat. Corporations and extremely wealthy individuals potentially have power beyond elected...