SMART Hub’s proposed way out is sharing. A radar operating near 3.1 gigahertz could sense a nearby wireless network, shift to 3.4 gigahertz, and keep its range.
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That makes me wonder how serious they really are about claiming AI personhood or reflecting on its consequences.
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In an interesting cultural development, it’s easy to find people on the left and the right who are skeptical of the Doomers’ motives.
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The intelligence, understanding, and logical reasoning of ChatGPT and other LLMs continue to be limited by their inability to connect words to the real world.
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A computer system can be generally intelligent (AGI) only if it can generate genuinely new functional information, not merely transfer it.
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They are paying an army of influencers to push this year’s IPOs for OpenAI and Anthropic just as they did with SpaceX.
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The real concern is that AI can find, combine, and carry out existing malicious techniques much faster and on a much larger scale than the human one.
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Instead of asking whether a system can imitate human behavior, the relevant question is whether it can generate new functional information.
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If strategy is more important than ideology for accelerationists, that is probably because their aims are incoherent and their groups fragment easily.
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Lê’s essay offers a much more sober assessment of transhumanism, the war on human exceptionalism, and the idea that machines think like people.
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AI displays very impressive horizontal integration (integrating existing concepts) but not vertical integration (entirely new inventions).
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If this is what happens when people think that human consciousness has a purely material evolutionary origin, it is a strong argument for the opposite view.
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AI belongs to this world of necessity and it is bound by the inputs we give it: code, training data, prompts. It has no imagination.
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First, we must remind ourselves that “data is not the plural of anecdote.”
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The Stanford Lab for Mental Health Innovation examined the unique risks of chatbots harming children. In many ways, this study confirms the obvious.
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Lazy lawyers have no doubt filed hallucinated content orders of magnitude more often.
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Russian philosopher Nikolai Berdyaev long ago argued that human creativity springs from freedom — just what machines do not have.
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Because he says the “genie” (or maybe the GenAI) “is out of the bottle,” Dr. Dembski wants me to submit to the myth of progress by sharing even one use of AI in education that I support.
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His paper, “Artificial General Intelligence Is Nowhere Near, Artificial Specific Stupidity Is Already Here,” challenges both hype and groundless fear.
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Dr. Dembski wants us to use technology with wisdom. I share his broader goal, but not the use of generative AI chatbots to get there.
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