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iambenstephens: Tech guru Jaron Lanier: ‘The danger isn’t that AI destroys us. It’s that it drives us insane’
CineDiaz: Some real talk about AI.
“It’s like saying a car can go faster than a human runner. Of course it can, and yet we don’t say that the car has become a better runner.”
TakingoutTrash7: “From my perspective,” he says, “the danger isn’t that a new alien entity will speak through our technology and take over and destroy us. To me the danger is that we’ll use our technology to become mutually unintelligible or to become insane if you like,
DemsDemo: AUCHTUNG! AUCHTUNG! AUCHTUNG!
WHO SAY WEIRDOS ARE NEVER LOGICAL SENSIBLE AND MAKE PROFOUND STATEMENTS WHERE I AGREE WITH THEM & STRPONGELY SUGGEST YOU LISTEN?
Regarding your compterized telephone calls on steroids & the corpporate government state?
Chadcona: Who Owns the Future - Jaron Lanier
Jetnosthai: Tech guru Jaron Lanier: ‘The danger isn’t that AI destroys us. It’s that it drives us insane’
SeanRiceaz: I like this perspective on tech and AI. Interesting philosophy.
D_The_Husband: OY, A.I.
“To preserve our human reality, we must make our new technologies more like the Talmud”
BY
JARON LANIER
golgotica: As for Twitter, he says it has brought out the worst in us. “It has a way of taking people who start out as distinct individuals and converging them into the same personality, optimised for Twitter engagement..."
sarahchousley: “This idea of surpassing human ability is silly because it’s made of human abilities.” Jaron Lanier on AI hype
IvchoBrasil: Tech guru Jaron Lanier: ‘The danger isn’t that AI destroys us. It’s that it drives us insane’
tomslominski: Tech guru Jaron Lanier: ‘The danger isn’t that AI destroys us. It’s that it drives us insane’
carnell_lee_: Tech guru Jaron Lanier: ‘The danger isn’t that AI destroys us. It’s that it drives us insane’
ClizBiz: Tech guru Jaron Lanier: ‘The danger isn’t that AI destroys us. It’s that it drives us insane’
_OscarHD: Tech guru Jaron Lanier: ‘The danger isn’t that AI destroys us. It’s that it drives us insane’
HeywoodRice: "I think that’s the personality you get if you spend too much time on Twitter. It turns you into a little kid in a schoolyard who is both desperate for attention and afraid of being the one who gets beat up."
Sofie_vHy: “To me the danger is that we’ll use our technology to become mutually unintelligible or to become insane if you like, in a way that we aren’t acting with enough understanding and self-interest to survive, and we die through insanity, essentially.”
lornepw: Tech guru Jaron Lanier: ‘The danger isn’t that AI destroys us. It’s that it drives us insane’
IWZen: “There’s plenty left to worry about: human extinction remains a distinct possibility if we abuse AI, and even if it’s of our own making, the end result is no prettier.”
Jaron Lanier: ‘The danger isn’t that AI destroys us. It’s that it drives us insane’
montes_narayana: “We have to say consciousness is a real thing and there is a mystical interiority to people that’s different from other stuff [e.g., computers] because if we don’t say people are special, how can we make a society or make technologies that serve people?”
JA_Koelstra: Tech guru Jaron Lanier: ‘The danger isn’t that AI destroys us. It’s that it drives us insane’:
paulotbrandao: Tech guru Jaron Lanier: ‘The danger isn’t that AI destroys us. It’s that it drives us insane’
jfeltis: “Lanier was always dismayed that the internet gave the appearance of offering infinite options but in fact diminished choice. …
Beforehand, we would sift through stacks in a record shop or browse in bookshops.”
kjaerulv: Tech guru Jaron Lanier: ‘The danger isn’t that AI destroys us. It’s that it drives us insane’
IanPitchford: Tech guru Jaron Lanier: ‘The danger isn’t that AI destroys us. It’s that it drives us insane’ | Jaron Lanier | The Guardian
limlouisa: Tech guru Jaron Lanier: ‘The danger isn’t that AI destroys us. It’s that it drives us insane’
rodjnaquin: Tech guru Jaron Lanier: ‘The danger isn’t that AI destroys us. It’s that it drives us insane’
DCulberhouse: “The historian George Dyson has written that a Google engineer once said to him: “We are not scanning all those books to be read by people. We are scanning them to be read by an AI.” -Jaron Lanier via Who Owns the Future?
While written in 2013, it becomes more clearer in 2023…
vizcult: Tech guru Jaron Lanier: ‘The danger isn’t that AI destroys us. It’s that it drives us insane’
ksandler1: Tech guru Jaron Lanier: ‘The danger isn’t that AI destroys us. It’s that it drives us insane’
aldentburgess: I've been reading a lot about AI lately. Here's an interesting take.
Woroud: Tech guru Jaron Lanier: ‘The danger isn’t that AI destroys us. It’s that it drives us insane’
BGanschow: Tech guru Jaron Lanier: ‘The danger isn’t that AI destroys us. It’s that it drives us insane’
SraPulpo: “We have to say consciousness is a real thing and there is a mystical interiority to people that’s different from other stuff because if we don’t say people are special, how can we make a society or make technologies that serve people?”.
wardgeene: ‘The danger isn’t that AI destroys us. It’s that it drives us insane’
RicardoLassala: Tech guru Jaron Lanier: ‘The danger isn’t that AI destroys us. It’s that it drives us insane’
akushnickmft: Tech guru Jaron Lanier: ‘The danger isn’t that AI destroys us. It’s that it drives us insane’
p_s_horne: Writing about LLM AI. Anyone have any thoughts on the idea that this is the ultimate weaponisation of our own public data for private profit? A bit like jaron lanier meets evgeny morozov and share a nightmare?
p_s_horne: Writing about LLM AI. Anyone have any thoughts on the idea that this is the ultimate weaponisation of our own public data for private profit? A bit like jaron lanier meets evgeny morozov and share a nightmare? Also the idea it’s theft of gpl code with no attribution?
ShannonSaglio1: "Lanier says the more sophisticated technology becomes, the more damage we can do with it, and the more we have a “responsibility to sanity”. In other words, a responsibility to act morally and humanely."
hattminn: Tech guru Jaron Lanier: ‘The danger isn’t that AI destroys us. It’s that it drives us insane’
ritaparada: “This idea of AI surpassing human ability is silly because it’s made of human abilities. The danger is that we’ll use our technology to become mutually unintelligible or insane.”
jasonpwoodbury: Jaron Lanier on Trump, Kanye & Elon: "Ten years ago they had distinct personalities. But they’ve converged to have a remarkable similarity of personality...the personality you get if you spend too much time on Twitter."
JEANTYREMY: Jaron Lanier - Is Consciousness an Illusion?
bsolomong: Tech guru Jaron Lanier: ‘The danger isn’t that AI destroys us. It’s that it drives us insane’
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_Akash: The godfather of virtual reality discusses how we can make AI work for us, how the internet takes away choice – and why he would ban TikTok
schoolgirl_k: Jaron Lanier – Who is Civilization for? (+ Q&A with Ulrich Kelber) Willy...
thenitai: Tech guru Jaron Lanier: ‘The danger isn’t that AI destroys us. It’s that it drives us insane’
timclarkis: Tech guru Jaron Lanier: ‘The danger isn’t that AI destroys us. It’s that it drives us insane’
kestelyn: "Twitter turns you into a little kid in a schoolyard who is both desperate for attention and afraid of being the one who gets beat up. You end up being this phoney who’s self-concerned but loses empathy for others."
KevinAdams: £1.95 well spent, great thinker Jaron Lanier, agree with him or not he sends you off on tangents you wouldn’t have otherwise travelled. Fantastic history of VR from the earliest experiments up to the arrival of Oculus and Meta too.
briancaiazza: deadening personal interaction, stifling inventiveness and perverting politics.
vicqr: “This idea of surpassing human ability is silly because it’s made of human abilities. It’s like saying a car can go faster than a human runner. Of course it can, and yet we don’t say that the car has become a better runner.”
agentsmart: Tech guru Jaron Lanier: ‘The danger isn’t that AI destroys us. It’s that it drives us insane’
edinteractivegr: Tech guru Jaron Lanier: ‘The danger isn’t that AI destroys us. It’s that it drives us insane’
HeadcaseGames: Tech guru Jaron Lanier: ‘The danger isn’t that AI destroys us. It’s that it drives us insane’
ColleenDoran: I spend less time online. Limit most of my online socializing to a private group and my Patreon. I work on my art. I spend time in my garden. I take walks. Human things first.
DIG1t0: The danger is that we’ll use technologies to become mutually unintelligible or insane, in a way that we are not acting with enough understanding and self-interest to survive.
jfporchez: “You can use AI to make fake news faster, cheaper and on greater scales. That combination is where we might see our extinction.” — Jaron Lanier
stefanwoelwer: Good read: “Tech guru Jaron Lanier: ‘The danger isn’t that AI destroys us. It’s that it drives us insane’”
DrzavljanD: Tech guru Jaron Lanier: ‘The danger isn’t that AI destroys us. It’s that it drives us insane’
dinovdm: Tech guru Jaron Lanier: ‘The danger isn’t that AI destroys us. It’s that it drives us insane’ | Jaron Lanier | The Guardian
hautepop: “The brain remembers what it was like to have a tail.”
Jaron Lanier
cagrierdem: I do not enjoy the grandiloquent narration in the article, yet Lanier has good points.
futurism: "And we die through insanity, essentially."
othernedwin: “To me the danger is that we’ll use our technology to become mutually unintelligible or to become insane if you like, in a way that we aren’t acting with enough understanding and self-interest to survive, and we die through insanity, essentially”
dluque: "And we die through insanity, essentially."
greg_thornbury: “To me the danger is that we’ll use our technology to become mutually unintelligible or to become insane if you like, in a way that we aren’t acting with enough understanding and self-interest to survive, and we die through insanity, essentially.”
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CcaleWolf: Tech guru Jaron Lanier: ‘The danger isn’t that AI destroys us. It’s that it drives us insane’
CcaleWolf: 2/2He says comparing ourselves with AI is the equivalent of comparing ourselves with a car. “It’s like saying a car can go faster than a human runner. Of course it can, and yet we don’t say that the car has become a better runner.”
CcaleWolf: 1/2 1/2 Lanier doesn’t even like the term artificial intelligence, objecting to the idea that it is actually intelligent, and that we could be in competition with it. “This idea of surpassing human ability is silly because it’s made of human abilities.”
witbrock: Writing, printing, recorded music and performance, radio, television, and several generations of the internet already have done that, repeatedly.
AI has prospects in that direction too, but also, finally, the prospect of giving…
maenadea: Tech guru Jaron Lanier: ‘The danger isn’t that AI destroys us. It’s that it drives us insane’
WynnePalmer: Great read.
danvzla: Tech guru Jaron Lanier: ‘The danger isn’t that AI destroys us. It’s that it drives us insane’
EwenLavoie: “We have to say consciousness is a real thing and there is a mystical interiority to people that’s different from other stuff because if we don’t say people are special, how can we make a society or make technologies that serve people?”
SkarredGhost: I love these insights about technologies from Jaron Lanier
Tech guru Jaron Lanier: ‘The danger isn’t that AI destroys us. It’s that it drives us insane’
internetlegal: Tech guru Jaron Lanier: ‘The danger isn’t that AI destroys us. It’s that it drives us insane’:
ElizabethP_Bsn: (2/2) can cause misinformation and radicalization. I feel like the country is already very dangerous and violent, and it’s terrifying to think that it could get worse. Even to the point of civil war, like Jaron Lanier says in the documentary.
Rizstanford: Tech guru Jaron Lanier: ‘The danger isn’t that AI destroys us. It’s that it drives us insane’ | Jaron Lanier | The Guardian
QBRIDigital: VR Pioneer Warns That AI Could Drive Us All Insane
pnilsson1: Tech guru Jaron Lanier: ‘The danger isn’t that AI destroys us. It’s that it drives us insane’
PatMoore1984: A sympathetic view on artificial intelligence.
federicovisi: “This idea of surpassing human ability is silly because it’s made of human abilities.” […]. “It’s like saying a car can go faster than a human runner. Of course it can, and yet we don’t say that the car has become a better runner.”
undertecher: "...the danger isn’t that a new alien entity will speak through our technology and take over and destroy us. To me the danger is that we’ll use our technology to become mutually unintelligible or to become insane if you like..."
fabricedelaye: The man has proved right in many occasion
jorie_graham: This:
Tech guru Jaron Lanier: ‘The danger isn’t that AI destroys us. It’s that it drives us insane’ | Jaron Lanier | The Guardian
digitaaldenken: 1/ In this period of insane AI hype, everyone should read Jaron Lanier.
But this interview bothers me, because the interviewer insists on depicting Lanier as a mercurial genius.
Stop making it seem like you need a high IQ to discuss or understand AI!
lernenmitki: Tech guru Jaron Lanier: ‘The danger isn’t that AI destroys us. It’s that it drives us insane’
nicolleness: "You can use AI to make fake news faster, cheaper and on greater scales. That combination is where we might see our extinction"
mamewhit: Tech guru Jaron Lanier: ‘The danger isn’t that AI destroys us. It’s that it drives us insane’
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bkreit: Tech guru Jaron Lanier: ‘The danger isn’t that AI destroys us. It’s that it drives us insane’
mjkaul: Jaron Lanier, being typically insightful:
"“We have to say consciousness is a real thing and there is a mystical interiority to people that’s different from other stuff because if we don’t say people are special, how can we make a society or make ...
MathildeGentil: Tech guru Jaron Lanier: ‘The danger isn’t that AI destroys us. It’s that it drives us insane’
