Very weak article.<p>It prepends several statements with “myth:” and does very little to debunk them.<p>Example: <i>AI won&#x27;t spin out of control because Moore’s laws is nearing its end.</i><p>First, is it really? Just because we can&#x27;t move electrons reliably much faster through much smaller sizes? What&#x27;s stopping new materials, spintronics, photonics and what have you to take us to the next decades? I&#x27;ve been hearing the end to Moore’s laws is “coming real soon” since I was a kid. Lots of clever explanations guaranteeing there was no way we could move past 200nm or so due to physical size of the wavelength used in lithography.
And yet here we are using crazy stuff like phase shifting masks and interference patterns routinely.<p>Second, the brain seems to be a very slow and massively parallel machine, so maybe transistors are plenty small and fast already, we just need to ditch the Von Neumann architecture.<p>Third, we only need a single strong AI to emerge for it to be a problem. I don&#x27;t see the clouds from these megacorps getting smaller any day.<p>I don&#x27;t really know what I&#x27;m talking about, of course, but it takes stronger arguments than <i>because quantum tunnelling and the speed of light</i> to make this case.