We now live in the midst of an artificial-intelligence boom, but it’s hardly the first of its kind. In fact, the field has been subject to a boom-and-bust cycle since at least the early nineteen-fifties.
Sci-Fi Writer Arthur C. Clarke Predicted the Rise of Artificial Intelligence & the Existential Questions We Would Need to Answer (1978)
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As it exists today, “AI” is neither artificial or intelligent.
It is as some wags have called it “Fancy Autocomplete”
LLM’s can sometimes ‘kind of convincingly, if you squint and cock your head just right‘ mimic sentience (which is really what we’re talking about here) but all it is a sophisticated pattern matching against a huge corpus of pre-existing human textual output.
ChatGPT doesn’t know anything about what it’s spewing out in response to a prompt. If it did it would know that humans don’t have 6 fingers on thier hands (Count Rugen in The Princess Bride notwithstanding). It doesn’t reason in any sense of the word. It merely deconstructs the prompt given to it and essentially scours an enormous database for text that best matches an answer, based on the rules written into the algorithm it uses.
Human intelligence doesn’t actually work like that as much as the proponents wish it to be so.
It is a mildly useful tool for some tasks, at the cost of stealing human beings actual intellectual property and burning down the planet (Microsoft has floated restarting the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant to provide the energy it needs for it’s AI program).
Worse, once the various LLM’s start devouring the output of the other LLM’s, it will be the intellectual equivalent of the nanotechnology ‘Gray goo’ scenario.
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