If this is a tech Gold Rush, based on recent news, we might be better off selling shovels than investing in the gold.
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Avian is perfectly clear: There is no mind at all in Coordinated Avian Models (CAMs). And yet, they’re behind a staggering number of new designs.
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Dr. Avian was sure that he had found a formula for intelligence without anything like a human mind, and his program appeared to be working.
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Humans are terrible at crunching data but remarkably good at seeing clues. That’s why we still outmatch our machines in domains where meaning matters.
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It’s not impossible but, given technical issues and security protocols, it is much more difficult than the chatbot’s database seemed to be informed about.
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So CAN a chatbot really scheme? No, but the problem posed is a familiar one: We sometimes see what we need to believe.
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A growing body of neuroscience evidence directly challenges the prevailing theory that we are merely flawed computers, to be replaced by machines.
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The tech sector can push AI hype that resembles cargo cult science to its investors because of changes in media resulting from 30 years of the internet.
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Information isn’t free, Dembski says, and machines aren’t magic. By remembering what makes us human, we can use technology without losing ourselves to it.
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In too many discussions, intelligence is treated as if it were a linear phenomenon that more scaling and a few extra gigabytes of data will solve.
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The big idea behind generative AI (mistakenly) assumes a network can start blank and be transformed into an intelligent agent simply via enough data.
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On the topic of computer self-awareness, Grok is algorithmically responding in accordance to the material and instructions it was trained with. Period.
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The uniquely human capacity to transform knowledge into something new lives above the shoulders of giants where the creative mind takes flight.
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LLMs are enormously expensive yet it is increasingly clear that they will never be reliable enough to be trusted in complex situations where mistakes are costly
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We will be dealing with problems around non-conscious AI that some people suppose is conscious long before we deal with conscious AI — if we ever do.
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Meanwhile, 76 of AI scientists surveyed said fundamental limitations prevent current AI models from ever thinking like humans. Scientists’ jobs are not at risk.
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Real intelligence is embodied. It exists within a living system, interacting dynamically with an environment. AI, on the other hand, is an abstraction.
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An AI could act out romantic love if software preprogrammed it that way, perhaps via online information. But that isn’t a relationship. There is only one side.
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The danger is not that computers are smarter than us but that we think they are and thus trust them to make decisions they should not be trusted to make.
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Companies, universities and almost everyone else hypes the latest advances while those who question the hype are told that they are the problem.
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