What is the vibe you’re interpreting me as stating? I didn’t mean that Drexler said that “systems with specialized goals will have only narrow knowledge”. What I wrote was that I interpreted the CAIS world as one where we’d train a model from scratch for each task. The update that I’m pointing out is that the costs of automating tasks can be massively parallelized across tasks, not that AIs will have broad knowledge of the world.
Oops, you’re right. Section 36.6 does advocate modularity, in a way that hints at the vibe you describe. And my review of the CAIS paper did say things about modularity that seem less likely now than they did 4 years ago.
What is the vibe you’re interpreting me as stating? I didn’t mean that Drexler said that “systems with specialized goals will have only narrow knowledge”. What I wrote was that I interpreted the CAIS world as one where we’d train a model from scratch for each task. The update that I’m pointing out is that the costs of automating tasks can be massively parallelized across tasks, not that AIs will have broad knowledge of the world.
Oops, you’re right. Section 36.6 does advocate modularity, in a way that hints at the vibe you describe. And my review of the CAIS paper did say things about modularity that seem less likely now than they did 4 years ago.