Mappouras’s General Intelligence Threshold offers a test question: Can the system generate insights that were not directly programmed into it?
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Chatbots process enormous amounts of data and produce convincing outputs but, he says, they do not grasp the meaning of the concepts they manipulate.
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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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80 years later, we are using the same paradigm, with much faster computers and vast data but we still haven’t cracked the mystery of human intelligence.
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AI might give us impressive answers to our questions. But that doesn’t mean they have a humanlike understanding of what is going on.
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Theologian and philosopher David Bentley Hart turns to an ancient folk tale to explain the danger of coming to believe that artificial intelligence is real human intelligence. Narcissus, as he tells us, was a young Greek hunter who fell in love with his own reflection in still water. He was entranced by the image but frustrated by the fact that it never did anything he didn’t do himself. He pined away and was eventually transformed into a flower — still called narcissus today. His name also found its way into psychology as a term for extreme self-absorption, narcissism. And that’s where Dr. Hart fears that an attraction to AI products as “machine selves” is taking us. While we’ve always been Read More ›
Earlier this month, we looked at claims that robots are going to scarf up everyone’s jobs. That was a bonus feature in the Science Uprising series. In another bonus interview, “John Lennox on the Transhumanist Claim AI Will Turn Humans into Gods” (October 17, 2022), Oxford mathematician Lennox talks about claims that 1) computers are taking over and that 2) we will merge with them (transhumanism). Lennox is the author of 2084: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Humanity (2020). This is the first of two parts, where he talks mainly about narrow AI but then gets into the topic of artificial general intelligence (AGI). A partial transcript and notes follow: John Lennox: The typical AI system consists of a Read More ›
Dr. Marks points out that Nobelist Roger Penrose, a great scientist, differs with late colleague Stephen Hawking. He thinks human thought is non-computable.
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