It seems Tony Blair’s new book is
all about how AI is great and tech companies should be allowed to have all of our data. With AI, Blair is fully signed up to the hype about self-reinforcement and an imminent great leap forward. The latest LLM-based AI, he says, ‘has human brain-like capabilities – BUT one with an ever improving intellect ... True, at present, it resembles a person with an average IQ of about 100 ... but as the reinforcement loop gathers momentum AI will soon have an IQ of 150 – that’s very smart. In time, it will have one of 200. Then we’re in a new world.’
David Runciman’s review points out many problems with the book, but this is the funniest bit:
A lot of this is hard to square with the advice Blair gives elsewhere in the book, which is that Leaders (it’s always capital L, for reasons never fully explained…