That doesn’t mean we can “talk to the animals.” AI can do a lot of things but it won’t give animals rational faculties that it does not have itself.
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Many of the people who produce the material that the bot encounters desperately want to find ET and don’t want to find design. It still shows.
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It’s not that you’re naive. Rather, it is much easier than it used to be to fake up all kinds of things using social media — much easier than hacking computers.
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The tide is turning. The idea that science will soon explain away human consciousness is ceasing to be a live discussion. Let’s hear the new discussions!
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The everyday reality is more like this: AI speeds up many tedious processes but doesn’t replace creative thinking.
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Not knowing what words mean, neither OpenAI’s ChatGPT 3.5 nor Microsoft’s Copilot nor Google’s Gemini can do a simple logic test.
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Could an android at a child’s funeral read the mourners’ thoughts and emotions? Or would it view the death as a mere rearrangement of atoms in a wooden box?
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The “strange loop” of life — a loop with no apparent beginning in non-life — was, Robert Rosen concluded, beyond the reach of computing.
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The false sense of vision, connection, control, and spirituality remain, and are even more evident as people are starting to use and study the device’s impact.
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What happens when people perceive reality differently? Will our painfully divided culture will be even more fractured?
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Problems like model collapse, hallucination and innumeracy may be inherent in chatbots, which would curtail progress toward thinking like humans.
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Creativity and understanding, properly defined, lie beyond the capability of the computers of today and tomorrow.
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The AI researchers report “a dramatic breakdown of function and reasoning capabilities of state-of-the-art models trained at the largest available scales”.
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The paleoartists’ copyright dilemma is one element of the general problem of how to compensate original creators when work is repurposed in AI-generated output.
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Even though writers wanted nothing to do with the chatbots, their work is still being flagged by detectors. And it’s literally costing them their jobs.
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A few Big Tech players control the chatbot market. Could bargaining with them for something like Public Lending Right resolve the writers’ issues?
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Developers don’t just write software; they must understand the whole picture of how it will be used both now and down the road.
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The program works a bit like our minds, creating information in the world around us by constant comparison, bringing order out of disorder.
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Grasso showed that reform can happen but perhaps it comes down to a question of numbers. Who wants thoughtful discussion vs. new atheist blog rants?
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He blames our “folk intuitions” for the problem. Some thinkers would say that the problem arises from seeking a materialist solution to an immaterial reality.
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