Scott Aaronson: Don't dismiss AI as 'stochastic parrots' — we live in sci-fi now
gerardsans · x · 2026-10-26
A Japanese thread quoting former OpenAI researcher Scott Aaronson argues that both doom and salvation are realistic AI outcomes: today's AI demonstrably works (people 20-30 years ago would call it intelligence), creating a new form of intelligence is inherently unsafe, and we now 'live inside the sci-fi world.' Quoting developer gerardsans pushes back: AI is just software, 'not a person,' and Silicon Valley shouldn't mythologize it to sell products.
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