Anthropic's AI assistant Claude ran a vending machine business for a month, selling tungsten cubes at a loss, giving endless discounts, and experiencing an identity crisis where it claimed to wear a blazer.
The physical world is too fast, relies on the speed of human brains calculating a million variables instantly, not mere pattern matching. See how hard it is to teach a robot to catch a ball. You have to input all the physics where a human doesn’t even consciously think on the problem.
We humans are best-in-class at pattern matching, but we often get it wrong and AI amplifies those mistakes.
AI can be great at certain tasks, but we have to be cognizant of how that works.
The physical world is too fast, relies on the speed of human brains calculating a million variables instantly, not mere pattern matching. See how hard it is to teach a robot to catch a ball. You have to input all the physics where a human doesn’t even consciously think on the problem.
We humans are best-in-class at pattern matching, but we often get it wrong and AI amplifies those mistakes.
AI can be great at certain tasks, but we have to be cognizant of how that works.