Good points! Yes this snippet is particularly nonsensical to me
an AI system could be“superintelligent” without any basic humanlike common sense, yet while seamlessly preserving the speed, precision and programmability of a computer
It sounds like their experience with computers has involved them having a lot of “basic humanlike common sense” which is a pretty crazy experience in this case. When I explain what programming is like to kids, I usually say something like “The computer will do exactly exactly exactly what you tell it to, extremely fast. You can’t rely on any basic sense checking or common sense, or understanding from it, if you can’t define what you want specifically enough, the computer will fail in a (to you) very stupid way, very quickly.”
Good points!
Yes this snippet is particularly nonsensical to me
It sounds like their experience with computers has involved them having a lot of “basic humanlike common sense” which is a pretty crazy experience in this case. When I explain what programming is like to kids, I usually say something like “The computer will do exactly exactly exactly what you tell it to, extremely fast. You can’t rely on any basic sense checking or common sense, or understanding from it, if you can’t define what you want specifically enough, the computer will fail in a (to you) very stupid way, very quickly.”