According to the Wall Street Journal, Altman was “shocked” that he was ousted at OpenAI. But, he also fostered a close connection with Microsoft.
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Since it doesn’t know anything in the first place, there’s no way to talk it into sanity once it goes insane.
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Any device that supplies evidence in a legal case would need to be evaluated for validity and reliability.
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If we look at the papers presented at the conference, we can’t find evidence that AI is or will improve productivity.
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We need to start asking tough questions about what happened to the role of human thinking and insight in the discovery of how the world, and we, work.
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Computers will not equal, let alone surpass, human intelligence until they move beyond how to why by appraising causality.
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AI training on itself needs fresh creative material on which to train or algorithms will feed off themselves in recursive cycles and degenerate into nonsense.
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AI might give us impressive answers to our questions. But that doesn’t mean they have a humanlike understanding of what is going on.
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It is wishful thinking to interpret these results and other LLM performances as evidence of logical reasoning.
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Kurzweil’s argument essentially assumes humanity is completely good and therefore if AI reflects (is “trained on”) us, then it will also be completely good.
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As automation increases, the need for human labor increases, and as a corollary, so does the need for humans in general.
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Consider the following scenarios and compare: Leilani considered the images on the screen … choose five, copy them, and paste them from the AI generator to the AI evaluator. Two to choose from … creative juices flowing, Leilani chose one and started working on the type. Which typeface would represent the playful air the client was looking for? Back to the AI selector to describe each face. All of them were playful, but one was fun, too — that’s the right match! After a few more minutes of creative release, Leilani leaned back to consider the result. Paste a copy of the final to her local friend’s group and wait a minute … the first response was: “Wow! You’re as Read More ›
Meanwhile, organizations that laid off writers and editors to save money are finding that they can’t just program creativity or common sense into machines.
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Whither AI and copyright? Two significant battles working their way through the United States court system will define the relationship between human creators and AI systems. If you are a creator, you need to pay attention. First, can content created by AI be copyrighted? While it seems evident that content created by a user prompt should not be copyrightable by the user, what about the designer and operator of the AI system? It might seem reasonable to infer the humans who create a system that, in turn, creates new “works” should be able to copyright those works. In August of 2023, however, a United States District Court Judge ruled that AI-generated content cannot be copyrighted because “human authorship is a Read More ›
True progress on AI — let alone human progress — means moving beyond induction and data analysis, an approach that is now over a decade old and saturating.
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ChatGPT is specifically taught to read authors’ works so that a human can request ChatGPT to mimic the original authors’ content and style.
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The biggest lesson from giving university exams to ChatGPT is that students should be tested in other ways.
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It appears the Authors Guild has adequately alleged OpenAI, et al., made and used unlawful copies of copyright-protected written works.
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Despite tech companies’ search to create an artificial “super-intelligence,” a recent poll suggests ordinary citizens want no such thing to be set loose into the world. Sigal Samuel, writing for Vox, talks about technological “solutionism, ” the idea that all the world’s problems, moral or otherwise, can be solved through mere technological progress. This ideology, he notes, extends to the current craze and hype surrounding AI. Sigal writes, AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) enthusiasts promise that the coming superintelligence will bring radical improvements. It could develop everything from cures for diseases to better clean energy technologies. It could turbocharge productivity, leading to windfall profits that may alleviate global poverty. And getting to it first could help the US maintain an edge over China; Read More ›
There’s a lot to discover. Recently, scholars learned that the Babylonians were using trigonometry 3700 years ago, centuries before the Greeks.
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