The December 16 report raised more questions than answers. The December 17 report offered more information but there was still too much “Take our word for it!”
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Question: If thoughts can only be copied — and copied badly — by AI, which is quite unlike the brain. then how can they be generated by the brain?
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In the case of AI, knowledge workers are trying to tell us something. They don’t like AI as much the top managers do, and their excitement is falling.
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Whatever one’s views on Christ, a computer system can’t materialize his essence.
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A reality check for LLMs is inevitable, and with OpenAI, “Project Strawberry,” and the new hype cycle — thanks to Chollet and others — it’s already here.
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We’ll need an architectural approach that can handle propositions—thoughts, judgments, reasoning structures—as first-order objects.
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AI models are really good at finding patterns in data but they are bad at deciding whether these spotted patterns can be used to make reliable predictions.
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Our intelligence interacts dynamically with our environment in a way that machine intelligence doesn’t.
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In decades past, people tended to meet each other in their local communities through church, school, family friends, and so on. Go back further and it was common for marriages to be arranged solely for economic purposes. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen was subversive because Elizabeth Bennett risks her family’s economic security by marrying Mr. Darcy purely for love. But, I digress. Trae Stephens writes for Pirate Wires on how the marriage rate has gone down alongside the advent of digital technologies, and how this is, more than likely, not coincidental. Particularly with the rise of AI bots, like the ones published by Character.AI, millions of people are living out romances with digital avatars perfectly tailored to their whims Read More ›
A research team at Apple is now sharing that “state-of-the-art” AI bots are failing basic arithmetic problems according to Los Angeles Times. Michael Hiltzik writes, The Apple team found “catastrophic performance drops” by those models when they tried to parse simple mathematical problems written in essay form. In this example, the systems tasked with the question often didn’t understand that the size of the kiwis have nothing to do with the number of kiwis Oliver has. Some, consequently, subtracted the five undersized kiwis from the total and answered “185.” Human schoolchildren, the researchers posited, are much better at detecting the difference between relevant information and inconsequential curveballs. Apple has recently been rolling out tons of new advertisements promoting the iPhone Read More ›
I still find it hard to see the connection between physics and neural networks but if it’s there, Paul Werbos and Bernie Widrow should have won the Nobel Prize.
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Sewell killed himself at the urging of a speaking and texting chatbot. The next gen is nearly flawless human impersonation video bots. Protect your children.
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Mill uses a beautiful contrast in metaphor to show how human nature is qualitatively different from machines.
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AI can regurgitate but can’t create. It can reflect verbiage but can never reflect on the substance or meaning of the words themselves.
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Sewell spiraled farther down an AI vortex until he fantasized about “joining” the chatbot in some kind of postmortem union.
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I never saw any news reports of Haitian migrants allegedly eating people’s pets in Springfield, Ohio. At least, not for the first couple of days after the “news” hit the social media headlines. I did see, however, an AI-generated video of a kitten cradled in the arms of Donald Trump with a caption along the lines of “save the cats!” The Haitians chased him with weaponry in the background. I saw another AI video of a cat at a construction site just working to feed the family, praying that he’d live to see another day without the Haitians trying to nab his skin as a rug. The event was a meme before it was a story. It wasn’t until after I’d Read More ›
And the question we should ask is, given American history, why should anyone assume that the pessimists are right and he is wrong?
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AI companies should be held accountable by being required to watermark their images.
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Geoffrey E. Hinton, a pioneer in the field of artificial intelligence responsible for helping develop “neural networks,” has been awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize alongside John J. Hopfield. The two scientists won the award for their groundbreaking work in machine intelligence, paving the way for a revolutionary new way to use computers. Hinton attracted attention just last year when he departed from Google and started warning the public about the potential dangers of new AI systems. He likened the AI revolution to the Industrial Revolution of the nineteenth century, only this time, it won’t be our physical capacities that get trumped by the machine, but our intellects. The New York Times reports, “It will be comparable with the Industrial Revolution,” Read More ›
Among the problems that AI Morality tackles is the risk that even if AI doesn’t reduce the quantity of jobs, it may greatly affect the quality of jobs available
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