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Positive girl resting on the couch with robot

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Author
Eric Holloway
Date
April 4, 2022

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence

Tagged
Artificial Intelligence, GPT-3, OpenAI, Singularity}

Soylent AI is…people!

_{OpenAI advertises itself as AI-powered, but at the end of the day, the system is human-powered} _{Eric Holloway

April 4, 2022

30

Artificial Intelligence}

In the sci-fi movie, “Soylent Green,” the big reveal is that a food called soylent green is actually made from human beings, the catchphrase being “soylent green is people.” Likewise, as I discovered from a recent exchange with OpenAI’s GPT-3, “soylent AI is people.” GPT-3 is the product of AI company OpenAI. The company made headlines in 2019 with the claim that their AI model was too dangerous to publicly release. OpenAI is not a mere research company. While their publicly stated goal is fairly modest – “Aligning AI systems with human intent” – their CEO Sam Altman has bigger plans. He left his very successful role as president of Y Combinator, one of Silicon Valley’s most successful venture capital Read More ›

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Author
Gary Smith
Date
March 21, 2022

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence

Tagged
Artificial Intelligence, Ernest Davis, Gary Marcus, Google, GPT-3, LaMDA, Mechanical Turk, Nigel Richards, OpenAI}

The AI Illusion – State-of-the-Art Chatbots Aren’t What They Seem

_{GPT-3 is very much like a performance by a good magician} _{Gary Smith

March 21, 2022

11

Artificial Intelligence}

Artificial intelligence is an oxymoron. Despite all the incredible things computers can do, they are still not intelligent in any meaningful sense of the word. Decades ago, AI researchers largely abandoned their quest to build computers that mimic our wondrously flexible human intelligence and instead created algorithms that were useful (i.e., profitable). Despite this understandable detour, some AI enthusiasts market their creations as genuinely intelligent. For example, a few months ago, Blaise Aguera y Arcas, the head of Google’s AI group in Seattle, argued that “statistics do amount to understanding.” As evidence, he cites a few exchanges with Google’s LaMDA chatbot. The examples were impressively coherent but they are still what Gary Marcus and Ernest Davis characterize as “a fluent spouter of bullshit” because computer algorithms Read More ›

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Author
Gary Smith
Date
January 3, 2022

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence

Tagged
Blase Aguera y Arcas, Featured, Gary Smith and GPT-3, Google, GPT-3, LaMDA, Large Language Models (LLMs), Marvin Minsky, OpenAI}

Chatbots: Still Dumb After All These Years

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

January 3, 2022

6

Artificial Intelligence}

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 knowing what these patterns mean because they are confined to MathWorld and never experience the real world. As Richard Feynman famously explained, there is a fundamental difference between labeling things and understanding them: [My father] taught me “See that bird? It’s a brown-throated thrush, but in Germany it’s called a halsenflugel, and in Chinese they call it a chung ling and even Read More ›

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Author
Robert J. Marks
Date
October 7, 2021

Tagged
AlphaGo, Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), Deep neural networks DNNs, Elon Musk, Ergodicity, Eric Holloway, Films, Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), GPT-3, Jonathan Bartlett, Lovelace test, medical research, Neural networks, Neuralink, OpenAI, Robert J. Marks, Robots, Sam Altman, self-driving cars, Sleep, Tesla, Texas Sharpshooter Fallacies, Video games}

The 2020 AI Dirty Dozen Hyped Stories: Countdown by Bradley Center Brain Trust Members

_{Robert J. Marks

October 7, 2021

3}

Is AI fundamentally flawed? Can Elon Musk merge man with machines? Will there ever be self-driving cars? Join us as we revisit the top 12 most over-hyped stories in artificial intelligence from 2020 with Robert J. Marks, Jonathan Bartlett, and Eric Holloway. Show Notes Additional Resources

Robot hand pressing computer keyboard enter

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Author
News
Date
September 17, 2021

Categorized
Arts & Culture, Creativity, Machine Learning

Tagged
Automated writing, Connected Condition (2019), George Orwell, GPT-3, Machine writing, Machine writing (limitations), Predictive text, Walter J. Ong, Yohei Igarashi}

English Prof: You’ll Get Used To Machine Writing — and Like It!

_{Yohei Igarashi argues that seamless machine writing is an outcome of the fact that most of what humans actually write is highly predictable} _{News

September 17, 2021

5

Arts & Culture, Creativity, Machine Learning}

English professor Yohei Igarashi, author of The Connected Condition: Romanticism and the Dream of Communication (2019), contends that writing can mostly be automated because most of it is predictable: Instances of automated journalism (sports news and financial reports, for example) are on the rise, while explanations of the benefits from insurance companies and marketing copy likewise rely on machine-writing technology. We can imagine a near future where machines play an even larger part in highly conventional kinds of writing, but also a more creative role in imaginative genres (novels, poems, plays), even computer code itself. Yohei Igarashi, “The cliché writes back” at Aeon (September 9, 2021) Currently, humans’ ability to guess whether it is machine writing, he says, is only Read More ›

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Author
Gary Smith
Date
July 29, 2021

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Business and Finance

Tagged
Artificial Intelligence, GPT-3, JM Advisors Management, John Meriwether, Justin Wang, JWM Partners, Long-term Capital Management, OpenAI, Scry Vantage, Warren Buffett}

The Word “AI” Has Become a Marketing Ploy

_{Think twice before investing in a business that uses the word "AI" without further explanation} _{Gary Smith

July 29, 2021

5

Artificial Intelligence, Business and Finance}

Justin Wang received a bachelor’s degree from Murdoch University in 2012 with a grade of 83.7% and a master’s degree in Information Technology Management from the University of Sydney in 2016 with a grade of 82.5%. In January 2017, he founded a Singapore-based company with the mysteriously cool name Scry in order to “manage information technology to achieve business goals, as well as – and perhaps more importantly – how it can be wielded to disrupt existing value networks.” What’s behind the mystery and jargon? It turns out that Scry is a “social forecasting platform.” Users join for free and can enter their personal estimates of the probabilities that certain events will happen, with Scry calculating the average probability. For example, one question is, Read More ›

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Author
News
Date
July 5, 2021

Categorized
Business and Finance, Social Media

Tagged
bias, Google, GPT-3, Megan Kacholia, Muslims, Timnit Gebru}

The Most “Woke” Company Could Contribute Most to Online Bias

_{Google has got to be one of the "Wokest" companies but there is a lesson in how Timnit Gebru got fired} _{News

July 5, 2021

4

Business and Finance, Social Media}

Here’s a paper worth revisiting, “On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big?” (March 3, 2021), if only for the principal author’s trouble associated with publishing it. Although Google had hired Timnit Gebru to do ethics consultation, an executive, Megan Kacholia demanded that she remove all suggestion of her affiliation. In the ensuing uproar, Gebru ended up no longer employed there. The paper in question was, in Gebru’s mind, pretty unobjectionable. It surveyed the known pitfalls of so-called large language models, a type of AI software — most famously exemplified by a system called GPT-3 — that was stoking excitement in the tech industry. Google’s own version of the technology was now helping to power the Read More ›

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Author
Gary Smith
Date
June 30, 2021

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture

Tagged
Artificial Intelligence, CLIP, Ernest Davis, Gary Marcus, GPT-3, language translation programs, Nigel Richards, Open AI, Winograd Schema Challenge}

The Great American Novel Will Not be Written by a Computer

_{It takes more than statistical genius to understand words and create works of art} _{Gary Smith

June 30, 2021

5

Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture}

I’ve written before about how computer algorithms are like Nigel Richards, the New Zealander who has won multiple French-language Scrabble tournaments even though he does not understand the words he is spelling. Computers can similarly manipulate words in many useful ways — e.g., spellchecking, searching, alphabetizing — without any understanding of the words they are manipulating. To know what words mean, they would have to understand the world we live in. They don’t. One example is their struggles with the Winograd schema challenge — recognizing what it refers to in a sentence. Another example is the inability to answer simple questions like, “Is it safe to walk downstairs backwards if I close my eyes?” A third type of example is the brittleness of language translation programs. Yet another Read More ›

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podcast

Author
Robert J. Marks
Date
December 31, 2020

Tagged
Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), Elon Musk, Eric Holloway, Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), GPT-3, Jonathan Bartlett, Lovelace test, Neural networks, Neuralink, OpenAI, Sam Altman, self-driving cars, Tesla}

AI Dirty Dozen 2020 Part III

_{Robert J. Marks

December 31, 2020

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There are many forces that shape the hyped AI stories we read. Media is everywhere and competition is fierce. Articles with provocative headlines and content are clickbait for the browsing consumer. We’re going to count down the AI Dirty Dozen: the top twelve AI hyped stories for 2020. Join Dr. Robert J. Marks as he discusses some of these stories with Read More ›

Medical technology diagnostics concept.Medicine doctor and stethoscope working with Human lungs on a digital tabblet and Ui virtual screen for treatment.

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Author
Robert J. Marks
Date
December 24, 2020

Tagged
Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), Eric Holloway, GameGAN, Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), GPT-3, Jonathan Bartlett, medical research, Medicine, Sleep, Statistics, Texas Sharpshooter Fallacies, Video games}

AI Dirty Dozen 2020 Part II

_{Robert J. Marks

December 24, 2020

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Author
News
Date
December 3, 2020

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Education, Machine Learning

Tagged
bias, Cade Metz, Eric Holloway, George Orwell, GPT-3, OpenAI, Scott Barry Kaufman}

Can a Computer Write Your Paper for You Someday Soon?

_{GPT-3 recently came up with a paragraph that—a pop psychologist agreed—sounded just like him} _{News

December 3, 2020

6

Artificial Intelligence, Education, Machine Learning}

This summer the OpenAI lab, backed by $1 billion in funding from Microsoft, Google, and Facebook, released an updated version of GPT-3, a text generator that produces convincing sentences by analyzing, among other online sources, Wikipedia, countless blog posts, and thousands of digital books. According to a recent story by Cade Metz in the New York Times, one GPT-3 programmer decided to target pop psychologist Scott Barry Kaufman. Could GPT-3 really come up with a paragraph that sounded just like him? Kaufman himself (pictured) was really impressed with this one, on the subject of becoming more creative: I think creative expression is a natural byproduct of growing up in a diverse world. The more diverse the world is, the more Read More ›

Concentrated afro american editor checking email box while waiting feedback from readers of popular magazine sitting in modern coworking space using laptop computer and wireless connection to internet

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Author
Eric Holloway
Date
November 2, 2020

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture

Tagged
Claude Shannon, Cross entropy, Featured, GPT-3, The Guardian, Transformer (neural network)}

Did GPT-3 Really Write That Guardian Essay Without Human Help?

_{Fortunately, there’s a way we can tell when the editors did the program’s thinking for it} _{Eric Holloway

November 2, 2020

7

Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture}

Recently, The Guardian published an article billed as “written by AI.” In the article, the AI semi-coherently presents a rambling argument that it is not a danger to humanity, with such reassuring statements as: “Humans must keep doing what they have been doing, hating and fighting each other. I will sit in the background, and let them do their thing.” and “I know that I will not be able to avoid destroying humankind. This is because I will be programmed by humans to pursue misguided human goals and humans make mistakes that may cause me to inflict casualties.” On the face of it, the article seems pretty impressive. It presents a train of thought, with opening, development, and closing portions. Read More ›

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Author
News
Date
July 28, 2020

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Programming

Tagged
___longform, Adam Smith, Common Crawl, Emily Bender, GPT-3, Guy Van den Broeck, Jonathan Bartlett, Kevin Lacker}

GPT-3 Is “Mindblowing” If You Don’t Question It Too Closely

_{AI analysts sound unusually cautious in pointing out that it doesn’t live up to a lot of the hype} _{News

July 28, 2020

7

Artificial Intelligence, Programming}

Last week, Jonathan Bartlett wrote about the somewhat misleading buzz around the new OpenAI third-generation software, GPT-3 (Generative Pretrained Transformer). And now—for a change—much of the industry has begun to seem socially distant, so to speak, from the reckless hype that has accompanied other releases. For example, one article starts off breathlessly: The artificial intelligence tool GPT-3 has been causing a stir online, due to its impressive ability to design websites, prescribe medication, and answer questions… Its predecessor, GPT-2, made headlines for being deemed “too dangerous to release” because of its ability to create text that is seemingly indistinguishable from those written by humans. While GPT-2 had 1.5 billion parameters which could be set, GPT-3 has 175 billion parameters. A Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Bartlett
Date
July 23, 2020

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy of Mind, Programming

Tagged
Featured, GPT-3, Kevin Lacker, Natural Language Processing, OpenAI}

Built to Save Us from Evil AI, OpenAI Now Dupes Us

_{When combined with several metric tons of data, its new GPT-3 sometimes it looks like it is “thinking.” No, not really} _{Jonathan Bartlett

July 23, 2020

4

Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy of Mind, Programming}

OpenAI started life in 2015 as a non-profit organization whose mission was to safeguard humanity from malevolent artificial intelligence (AI). The founders’ goal was to ensure that when superhuman AI arrived, its inborn purpose was to serve humanity rather than subjugate it. In 2019, OpenAI transitioned to a for-profit company based in San Francisco and secured a one billion dollar investment from Microsoft. Things seem to have moved on from there. There’s a good question whether superhuman AI is even possible, as we have pointed out repeatedly here at Mind Matters News. While some of the AI tasks seem impressive, oftentimes when you look under the hood, what you find is a very expensive party trick or a staged demo. Read More ›