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Cal Newport

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

You did not hear him talking about what we're working on and why AI is important is because we're going to be able to find vulnerabilities in software that have been long hidden.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

We're going to build the ultimate cybersecurity machine.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

This was not discussed.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

That's old fashioned stuff.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

That's boring stuff.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

That's stuff that we were worried at.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

Even GPT-2 people are worried about that.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

What we've been hearing about steadily was jobs are going to be automated.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

We're going to have like whole creative industries wiped out.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

We might have sentience coming and at the very least like AGI and these massive disruptions.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

This is what they've been focusing on again and again.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

And then their biggest, best model, right?

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

Their newest, greatest, bestest model that they train forever and use all the electricity.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

What did they say about it?

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

None of those things.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

They didn't talk about any of the things they said the key to AI was, the things they were afraid of, the things they were excited about.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

Instead, they went back and talked about a boring parochial old feature that has been an issue that nerdy security researchers have been talking about for a half decade now.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

That to me is, if I was an investor, I would say, take off your like Greek helmet cosplay mythos is coming to destroy.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

Hold on a second.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

Is this better at automating jobs?