Tag: Blaise Agüera y Arcas

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Author
Gary Smith
Date
December 26, 2022

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence

Tagged
Blaise Agüera y Arcas, Featured, Google, GPT-3, GPT-3 (Gary Smith's tests), LaMDA, Large Language Models (LLMs), Marvin Minsky, OpenAI, Timnit Gebru}

Chatbots: Still Dumb After All These Years

_{Intelligence is more than statistically appropriate responses} _{Gary Smith

December 26, 2022

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Artificial Intelligence}

This story, by Pomona College business and investment prof Gary Smith was #6 in 2022 at Mind Matters News in terms of reader numbers. As we approach the New Year, we are rerunning the top ten Mind Matters News stories of 2022, based on reader interest. At any rate: “Chatbots: Still dumb after all these years.” (January 3, 2022) In 1970, Marvin Minsky, recipient of the Turing Award (“the Nobel Prize of Computing”), predicted that within “three to eight years we will have a machine with the general intelligence of an average human being.” Fifty-two years later, we’re still waiting. The fundamental roadblock is that, although computer algorithms are really, really good at identifying statistical patterns, they have no way of Read More ›

Positive girl resting on the couch with robot

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Author
Gary Smith
Date
May 11, 2022

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Technocracy

Tagged
Black box algorithms (in decision-making), Blaise Agüera y Arcas, Computer-based decision-making, Gary Smith (on GPT-3), GPT-3 (Gary Smith), LaMDA, Large Language Models (LLMs), Smith test, Turing Test}

Turing Tests Are Terribly Misleading

_{Black box algorithms are now being trusted to approve loans, price insurance, screen job applicants, trade stocks, determine prison sentences, and much more. Is that wise?} _{Gary Smith

May 11, 2022

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Artificial Intelligence, Technocracy}

In 1950 Alan Turing proposed that the question, “Can machines think?,” be replaced by a test of how well a computer plays the “imitation game.” A man and woman go into separate rooms and respond with typewritten answers to questions that are intended to identify the players, each of whom is trying to persuade the interrogators that they are the other person. Turing proposed that a computer take the part of one of the players and the experiment be deemed a success if the interrogators are no more likely to make a correct identification. There are other versions of the game, some of which were suggested by Turing. The standard Turing test today involves a human and a computer and Read More ›