Why do Economists and AI Experts Disagree About the Future?Economists expect economic growth to continue at around 2% per year, more or less indefinitely. By contrast, many top AI researchers predict we'll soon have Dyson spheres.This talk aims to explain the gap, why economists are skeptical, and what evidence might change their minds.Speaker: Tamay Besiroglu, Mechanize IncAttend in person ...
Much of the discourse around AI frames it as an alien and inscrutable intelligence. But in fact our success at creating "real" AI with general capabilities in the 2020s has come not only by taking many pages from computational neuroscience, but by performing large-scale modeling on human language-- the "DNA" ...