The Future Worth Building Is Human: Extending Will and Judgment with AI
The Future Worth Building Is Human – Thinking Machines Lab
We believe AI must extend human will and judgment rather than replace it. Our mission at Thinking Machines is to build distributed, customizable models that learn from the unique, local knowledge of individuals and organizations. By developing tools for fine-tuning and interfaces for live collaboration, we ensure that intelligence serves human goals, preserving the diversity and adaptability that come from human participation.
To be the master of the machine, you have to have the knowledge and the skills to teach the machine.
- samuell
While I understand this is a PR talk for a startup, I think the text itself contains a number of interesting observations.
Regarding the idea of distributed models communicating with each other, I have also been thinking (and writing [1]) along those lines, where I see that the data amounts needed to fully digitalize ourselves and our society requires far too much storage if just serialized (limited by bandwidth if nothing else), while smart, updateable models are actually a much better storage medium for such information, as it can communicate only the important bits (any new information) on a higher level, with each other.
The other observation here that rings bells for me is how I think lessons from trying to develop intelligent systems should upvalue the human mind rather than devalue it, as we start to treat it less like an ad-hoc thing, and more like the finely tuned machine it is, which also benefits greatly from optimizing what data we feed it with, the architecture of solution strategies etc. All of which is an area where humans and machines can do wonders together [2].
[1] https://livingsystems.substack.com/p/the-future-of-data-less...
[2] https://livingsystems.substack.com/p/ai-progress-should-upgr...
- numeri
Seems to echo (but in a watered down form) many of the ideas in https://gwern.net/guardian-angel, which gave me a lot to think about last week
- mikelitoris
This has 1984 “war is peace” vibes, coming from an AI company.
- aledevv
> Artificial intelligence can do more every day, but deciding what it should do is up to us
> For artificial intelligence to benefit from distributed knowledge, it must itself be distributed.
I wish to highlight these two important concepts, with which I fully agree.
Artificial intelligence must enable all of humanity to excel and realize its full potential; it must not be used for the purposes of war, economic competition, or gaining dominance over others.
In other words: artificial intelligence must serve natural intelligence, not the other way around.
- ninju
They better start making progress