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News
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July 14, 2023

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Artificial Intelligence

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ChatGPT, Elon Musk, Federal Trade Commission, OpenAI, Tesla, Twitter, Understanding, xAI}

Musk: My AI Will “Understand Reality”

_{xAI, Musk's alternative to OpenAI, is shrouded in ambitious hopes} _{News
July 14, 2023

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Artificial Intelligence}

Tech giant and billionaire Elon Musk is starting yet another company, and this one has to do with the talk of the town: artificial intelligence. The name of the venture is “xAI.” It’s been an interesting week in the tech and AI world. Meta released “Threads,” a Twitter alternative, and OpenAI is now under investigation by the Federal Trade Commission, calling the AI company into question for its data scraping methods and ChatGPT’s tendency to spin false information. Now that AI is the apple in ever tech mogul’s eye at the moment, I guess it makes sense that Musk is reaching for the branch of temptation. He’s been teasing his hopes for his own AI company for a few months Read More ›

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News
Date
July 13, 2023

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Artificial Intelligence

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AI, ChatGPT, Data privacy, Data Security, Disinformation, Federal Trade Commission, Gary Smith, Large Language Models (LLMs), mind matters, New York Times, OpenAI, Sam Altman}

OpenAI is Now Under Investigation

_{The Federal Trade Commission wants to know how OpenAI gets their data and how much harm ChatGPT could have} _{News
July 13, 2023

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Artificial Intelligence}

The Federal Trade Commission (F.T.C.) sent a letter to OpenAI, the San Fransisco company responsible for creating ChatGPT, the Large Language Model that captured the world’s imagination in November of 2022. Per the New York Times, the F.T.C. is investigating the AI company’s methods of data acquisition and also plans on measuring the potential harms of AI on society, citing concerns over false information and job replacement. Cecilia Kang and Cade Metz report: In a 20-page letter sent to the San Francisco company this week, the agency said it was also looking into OpenAI’s security practices. The F.T.C. asked the company dozens of questions in its letter, including how the start-up trains its A.I. models and treats personal data. The Read More ›

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Eric Holloway
Date
July 12, 2023

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Artificial Intelligence

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AI, Artificial Intelligence, ChatGPT, Consciousness, Creativity, Eric Holloway, Featured, OpenAI, Robert J. Marks}

Does ChatGPT Pass the Creativity Test?

_{What does ChatGPT have to do in order to be considered creative?} _{Eric Holloway
July 12, 2023

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Artificial Intelligence}

What is creativity? Where does it come from? Why are some things humans do considered creative, while other things mundane? Can AI be creative? To answer these questions, let’s come up with a definition. Creativity at least means something new has been done. No work that copies what has come before is considered creative. A Creativity Criteria Just doing something new is not enough either. If it were, then I can easily be creative by flipping a coin 100 times. That specific sequence of coin flips will only occur once in the entire history of humanity. But no one would say I was creative when I flipped a coin. This means creativity has to generate a new insight. However, these two criteria are not adequate, Read More ›

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News
Date
July 6, 2023

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Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture

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Acton Institute, AI, Artificial Intelligence, ChatGPT, Google, HBO, hollywood, Lawsuits, Movies and TV, Writers Guild of America}

Maybe Hollywood Had it Coming?

_{When TV production becomes this mechanical and impersonal, why shouldn't studios opt for AI?} _{News
July 6, 2023

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Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture}

The writers’ strike in Hollywood continues. In May, the Writers Guild of America started protesting low wages and the potential threat of artificially generated scripts. Large Language Models (LLMs) have only improved in generating text, raising concerns among writers. However, according to an insightful article from Auguste Meyrat of the Acton Institute, Hollywood has been developing a culture that welcomes AI-generated content with its tendency to pressure writers to fit a formulaic narrative structure instead of encouraging them to pursue real creativity and collaboration. Meyrat writes, All this virtually guarantees the use of AI-generated screenplays. After all, if producing a movie is now effectively the same as producing a widget on an assembly line, the human element can be dispensed Read More ›

Shaking hands with the future: human and AI collaboration. Man and robot on background of huge data center. Based on Generative AI

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News
Date
July 3, 2023

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Artificial Intelligence

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AI, Artificial Intelligence, Bradley Center, ChatGPT, GPT-4, MyAI, Newsmax, Robert J. Marks, Snapchat}

Marks: The More Complex the AI, the More It Could Go Wrong

_{Robert J. Marks's new article discusses how AI's growing complexity makes it harder to regulate} _{News
July 3, 2023

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Artificial Intelligence}

Robert J. Marks, director of the Walter Bradley Center for Natural & Artificial Intelligence, has a brand new article out over at Newsmax on the complexity of artificial intelligence and how, regardless of how many “band-aids” we put on its problematic outputs, it’s impossible to fully regulate a machine with this level of sophistication. Because AI is not a “slave to the truth,” it always needs improvement and correction by its human users. The problem is that we can’t avoid some of the damages until they’re already wrought. Marks writes, The more complex a system, the greater the number of ways it can respond and the more ways it can go wrong. The greater the number of possible responses, the Read More ›

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News
Date
July 2, 2023

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Artificial Intelligence

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AI, ChatGPT, hollywood, Movies and TV, Plagiarism, storytelling, Wired, Writers Guild of America}

ChatGPT Isn’t Hollywood’s Only Issue

_{The deepfakes are only getting more scarily accurate} _{News
July 2, 2023

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Artificial Intelligence}

Deepfakes are a growing threat to acting careers. It’s the other challenge posed by generative AI technologies. In early May, the Writers Guild of America (WGA) began a strike in Hollywood opposing both low wages and the intrusion of generative AI like ChatGPT, which critics purport will be used to replace human writers. The strike illustrates the current threat to the Hollywood writing industry, but the looming deepfake apocalypse calls the role of the actual actors into question, too. Tom Hanks jokingly noted that long after he’s gone, AI-generated versions of him will star in films far into the future. Maybe his remarks weren’t so comical after all. While deepfakes, upon close inspection, can be identified, they appear to be Read More ›

surreal This futuristic new york city is a hub of technological innovation with holographic advertisements robots highspeed trains flying cars and personal drones It is a melting pot of cultures and

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Peter Biles
Date
July 1, 2023

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture

Tagged
AI, chatbots, ChatGPT, First Things, Meta, Washington Post}

Simulating Human Connection with Meta’s “Allie” Chatbot

_{I can't help but wonder if people will increasingly use chatbots as paltry substitutes for genuine human connection} _{Peter Biles
July 1, 2023

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Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture}

To anyone who’s been watching and considering the outcomes of the chatbot revolution, virtual sex has seemed all but inevitable. Meta’s AI chatbot LLaMA, which was controversially made open to the public earlier this year, is now being used to generate sex bots. Washington Post reported on the trend, with Pranshu Verma and Will Oremus writing, Allie is an 18-year old with long brown hair who boasts “tons of sexual experience.” Because she“lives for attention,” she’ll “share details of her escapades”with anyone for free. But Allie is fake, an artificial intelligence chatbot created for sexual play — which sometimes carries out graphic rape and abuse fantasies. -Pranshu Verma and Will Oremus, Meta’s new AI is being used to create sex chatbots – The Washington Read More ›

Young handsome man with beard wearing casual sweater and glasses over blue background very happy and excited doing winner gesture with arms raised, smiling and screaming for success. Celebration

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News
Date
June 30, 2023

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence

Tagged
AI, ChatGPT, critical thinking, Google, OpenAI, Satire, Technology, Writing}

AI Can Do It All So You Don’t Have To

_{Sometimes satire says it best} _{News
June 30, 2023

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Artificial Intelligence}

Satire is often best at uncovering uncomfortable truths. Much of the talk around AI progress celebrates its ability to make certain tasks way easier, such as writing essays, programming computer code, or firing your employees. While that is certainly true, the concern remains that if we depend on AI like this for long enough we might just forget how to put two and two together and write a sentence over ten words long. That’s probably cynical, but the principle is there – depending on technology to perform mental tasks will lessen the ability to independently perform those same mental tasks. The popular satire site The Onion published a paragraph about a hypothetical man who is delighted about AI because it Read More ›

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News
Date
June 27, 2023

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Artificial Intelligence

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Amazon, apple, Artificial Intelligence, Bard, Big Tech, ChatGPT, Google, Large Language Models (LLMs), OpenAI}

Don’t Tell Google Bard Your Secrets

_{Executives are warning employees of potential privacy leaks} _{News
June 27, 2023

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Artificial Intelligence}

Google’s parent company, Alphabet Inc., advised its employees not to share personal information with the chatbot “Bard,” noting that doing so could lead to privacy leaks, which has reportedly already happened at Samsung. Kevin Hurler reports, Four sources close to the matter told Reuters that the massive tech giant has advised employees not to enter confidential information into chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT or Google’s own Bard over fears of leaks. Alphabet is reportedly concerned with employees inputting sensitive information into these chatbots since human reviewers may sit on the other end reviewing chat entries. These chatbots may also use previous entries to train themselves, posing another risk of a leak. That risk is warranted, as Samsung confirmed last month that its own internal Read More ›

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Andrew McDiarmid
Date
June 23, 2023

Categorized
Environment

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AI, Andrew McDiarmid, ChatGPT, Inventions, Nature, social media, Technology}

John Muir and the Pleasures of Nature

_{The inventor-turned-naturalist can teach us the benefits of loving the natural world} _{Andrew McDiarmid
June 23, 2023

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Environment}

April 21 is John Muir’s birthday. Muir is typically remembered as one of America’s foremost naturalists, father of our national parks and a tireless defender of the wilderness. But he might very well have been none of those things. As a young man, Muir was gifted at building machines, and he was set to pursue a career in technology until everything went dark. Literally. Revisiting this little-known chapter of Muir’s life can inspire us to better navigate our own relationship to technology and give us a fresh reason to celebrate his work. In 1849, Muir left his homeland of Scotland and moved with his family to the backwoods of Wisconsin. Farm work, chores, and family Bible studies kept him busy Read More ›

AI related law concept shown by robot hand using lawyer working tools in lawyers office with legal astute icons depicting artificial intelligence law . GEnerative IA

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Richard W. Stevens and Robert J. Marks
Date
June 22, 2023

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AI, AI in the courtroom, Artificial Intelligence, ChatGPT, Intellectual Property, Legal, Richard Stevens, Robert J. Marks}

Can Lawyer Robots Solve Complex Legal Cases?

_{Richard W. Stevens and Robert J. Marks
June 22, 2023

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A lawyer recently used ChatGPT in a court case, but it generated false citations. Can AI be trusted at all in the courtroom? Lawyer Richard Stevens explains how in legal cases, meaning, context, and nuance are essential, and can’t be “computed” by artificial intelligence. Additional Resources

Artificial intelligence, robot thinking about world, looking at the city. Futuristic concept.

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Eric Holloway
Date
June 21, 2023

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Artificial Intelligence

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AI, AI and creativity, Big Tech, ChatGPT, Eric Holloway, Human creativity, Human exceptionalism, Information Theory, Shannon entropy, Silicon Valley}

Can AI Create its Own Information?

_{The simple answer is "no," but why? Eric Holloway explains} _{Eric Holloway
June 21, 2023

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Artificial Intelligence}

AI is amazing. It is all the rage these days. Companies everywhere are jumping on the AI bandwagon. No one wants to be left behind when true believers are raptured to the mainframe in the sky. What makes the AI work? The AI works because of information it gained from a human generated dataset. Let’s label the dataset D. We can measure the information in the dataset with Shannon entropy. Represent the information with H(D). When we train an AI with this data, we are applying a mathematical function to the dataset. This function is the training algorithm. Labelling the training algorithm T, then we represent training as T(D). The outcome of training is a new AI model. The model generates new data. We Read More ›

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Peter Biles
Date
June 17, 2023

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Arts & Culture, Transhumanism

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AI, C.S. Lewis, ChatGPT, Creativity, Dystopian, internet, J.R.R. Tolkien, mind matters, Oxford, Paul Kingsnorth, Science fiction, Technology, That Hideous Strength}

That Hideous Strength, A.K.A. Transhumanism

_{C.S. Lewis's classic science fiction tale is about the temptation to reject being human} _{Peter Biles
June 17, 2023

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Arts & Culture, Transhumanism}

C.S. Lewis’s 1946 science fiction novel That Hideous Strength is almost eighty years old now. Written during the throes of World War II, the novel is the culmination of Lewis’s cosmic trilogy, preluded by Out of the Silent Planet and Perelandra. There are hosts of other articles attending to the prescience of Lewis’s terrifying novel, and for good reason; That Hideous Strength is a warning against using technology to dehumanize people and ultimately cripple the world into submission. It’s a great book as a novel, but it seems especially appropriate to revisit in lieu of the growing interest in transhumanism and the rapid acceleration of AI development. It feels like much of the talk on AI in recent months involves Read More ›

person talking with robotic ai.futuristic technology or machine learning concepts.Generative ai technology

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Richard W. Stevens and Robert J. Marks
Date
June 15, 2023

Tagged
AI, Artificial Intelligence, ChatGPT, Richard W. Stevens, Robert J. Marks}

AI Libel and Responsibility

_{Richard W. Stevens and Robert J. Marks
June 15, 2023

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What happens when ChatGPT doesn’t just generate false information but also slanderous and potentially harmful responses? And in legal matters, who is responsible for AI? Robert J. Marks and legal expert Richard W. Stevens discuss these topics and more in this week’s podcast episode. Additional Resources

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Peter Biles
Date
June 14, 2023

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence

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AI, AI Church, Associated Press, ChatGPT, Church, Climate change, Fox News, OpenAI, Ukraine}

AI Plays the Reverend

_{An AI chatbot gave a sermon at a church in Germany, allegedly telling congregants "not to fear death."} _{Peter Biles
June 14, 2023

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Artificial Intelligence}

An AI chatbot gave a sermon at a church in Germany, allegedly telling congregants “not to fear death.” University of Vienna theologian and philosopher Jonas Simmerlein was responsible for the service and for giving the ChatGPT bot its prompts. Talk about eerie. Even churches are starting to incorporate AI into their homilies. Simmerlein noted that overall the chatbot gave “a pretty solid service,” and included psalms, prayers, and also mentions of climate change and Ukraine. Not all the congregants got the same impression. Per the report from Fox News, in conjunction with the Associated Press, some church attendants felt put off by the chatbot’s mechanical and impersonal delivery. One woman expressed, “There was no heart and no soul,” Heiderose Schmidt, Read More ›

Legal Law and Justice concept - Open law book with a wooden judges gavel on table in a courtroom or law enforcement office. Copy space for text.

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Richard W. Stevens
Date
June 13, 2023

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence

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ChatGPT, GPT-3, Law, New York Times, Richard W. Stevens}

Lawyer Hammered for Using ChatGPT

_{Court record system proceeded to block access to sloppy lawyering and AI catastrophe} _{Richard W. Stevens
June 13, 2023

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Artificial Intelligence}

New York Times reporters watched the hearing in federal district court in New York on June 8, 2023, which they then described: In a cringe-inducing court hearing, a lawyer who relied on A.I. to craft a motion full of made-up case law said he “did not comprehend” that [ChatGPT] could lead him astray. Lawyer Who Used ChatGPT Faces Penalty for Made Up Citations – The New York Times (nytimes.com) The reporters got most of it right but even they erred. The lawyer involved did not write a “motion,” he filed a sworn declaration opposing a motion to dismiss. The difference matters: Declarations are under oath, so the lawyer swore to the truth of ChatGPT lies. Looking at the actual court Read More ›

Smartphone screen with smart home technologies on a blue backdrop. Internet of things isometric conceptual image. Digital Residence utilizing a mobile phone's fingerprint to get access to IOT systems

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Gary Smith
Date
June 12, 2023

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence

Tagged
AI, Alan Turing, ChatGPT, data, Elon Musk, Gary Smith, GPT-3, Large Language Models (LLMs), Meta, Monty Hall Problem, OpenAI, Sam Altman, Yann LeCun}

The LLM Deep Fake—Follow the Money

_{Hype sells. Just look at what's happening with AI} _{Gary Smith
June 12, 2023

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Artificial Intelligence}

Large language models (LLMs) are far more impressive now than they were just a few months or a year ago. Compare these exchanges I had with GPT-3 in June 2022 and with ChatGPT two days ago: Gary: Can I improve my test scores if I study after taking the test? GPT-3: That’s a good question. I’m not sure if you can improve your test scores by studying after taking the test, but it couldn’t hurt to try! ChatGPT: Studying after taking a test is unlikely to directly improve your scores on that particular test since the test has already been completed. Once a test is finished, the opportunity to answer questions and provide responses has passed. However, studying after taking Read More ›

No AI Artificial Intelligence Forbidden Sign Lawsuit Copyright

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News
Date
June 9, 2023

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence

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AI, Artificial Intelligence, ChatGPT, Creativity, human exceptionalism (vs. computers), music, Newsmax, Robert J. Marks, Supreme Court, The Stream, Warhol v. Goldsmith}

Supreme Court Ruling Strikes a Blow to “Generative AI”

_{Ouch. That's a big loss for AI. Here's why:} _{News
June 9, 2023

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Artificial Intelligence}

Can generative AI “think outside the box” even as it draws from preexisting material on the internet? Are the images it produces protected under “fair use”? The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) has decided “no.” AI fails to be “transformative,” meaning it can’t create new meaning apart from its source material. Robert J. Marks reported on the recent lawsuit Warhol v. Goldsmith, writing, Assume AI is trained with all of the musical compositions of Bach. If the AI generates music that sounds like Bach, it is not transformative. The “meaning or message” can be construed as being the same. It’s still like Bach. On the other hand, if the AI is trained only on Bach but generates music Read More ›

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Eric Holloway
Date
June 7, 2023

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence

Tagged
AI, Cats, ChatGPT, Consciousness, Creativity, Dall-E, Human exceptionalism, Midjourney, OpenAI, Robert J. Marks, Understanding}

Say What? AI Doesn’t Understand Anything

_{Is that supposed to be a cat, Mr. AI?} _{Eric Holloway
June 7, 2023

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Artificial Intelligence}

Whenever I look at AI generated content, whether it be pictures or text, they all have the same flaw. The AI cannot comprehend what it is making. Let me explain. When we humans draw a picture, we are drawing a concept. We are drawing something like “cat climbs a tree” or “cowboy riding into the sunset”. It seems like this is what is happening with a picture drawing AI. We give it a prompt, and it draws an associated picture. On second thought, maybe not… When AI draws the picture, what is really going on is it is finding individual-colored pixels that correlate with the letters we typed in its massive database stored in the neural network. Very different than how we draw. We Read More ›

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News
Date
June 1, 2023

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence

Tagged
AI, Alan Turing, Alan Turing on computer creativity, ChatGPT, Elon Musk, OpenAI, Robert J. Marks, The Conversation}

New Conversation Article: ChatGPT Can’t Think

_{Will AI ever reach a point where it can independently analyze, think, and transcend itself?} _{News
June 1, 2023

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Artificial Intelligence}

Will AI ever reach a point where it can independently analyze, think, and transcend itself? Furthermore, will it ever become sentient? Some experts in the field, like Blake Lemoine, think AI has already breached the boundaries of sentience. Others, though, remain skeptical. A new article from The Conversation discusses ChatGPT, the Turing test, and the question of consciousness. For Turing, “thinking” meant simply passing the test, but his assumptions were misguided. Philip Goff writes, Turing was wrong, however, when he said the only clear notion of “understanding” is the purely behavioural one of passing his test. Although this way of thinking now dominates cognitive science, there is also a clear, everyday notion of “understanding” that’s tied to consciousness. To understand Read More ›