Tag: Neural networks (and understanding)

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News
Date
July 26, 2023

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Artificial Intelligence

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AI, Artificial Intelligence, ChatGPT, Consciousness, Doomsdayers, Neural networks (and understanding), OpenAI, Sam Altmann}

Do AI Developers Really Not Know What They’re Making?

_{A speech-and-language AI researcher counterclaims the doomsdayers} _{News

July 26, 2023

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Artificial Intelligence}

A new article by AI researcher Arlie Coles at American Mind aims to “demystify” artificial intelligence, particularly the claim that AI creators have no idea what they’re creating. Coles says that we understand AI much better than the doomsdayers let on. Part of the reason for AI’s cloudy nature is due to its mathematical complexity, which Coles finds understandable. But that’s no reason not to try and understand what AI is and gauge its benefits and capacities in an accurate light. She writes, We do know what we’re building and how it works, and it’s not too late for us to speak forthrightly about AI so that the general public, not just those with math or computer science Ph.D.s, can Read More ›

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Author
News
Date
March 23, 2022

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning

Tagged
Gary Smith, GPT-3 (Gary Smith's tests), Melanie Mitchell, Neural networks (and understanding)}

Computer Prof: We Can’t Give Machines Understanding of the World

_{Not now, anyway. Melanie Mitchell of the Santa Fe Institute finds that ever larger computers are learning to sound more sophisticated but have no intrinsic knowledge} _{News

March 23, 2022

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Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning}

Last December, computer science prof Melanie Mitchell, author of Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans (2019), let us in on a little-publicized fact: Despite the greatly increased capacity of the vast new neural networks. they are not closer to actually understanding what they read: The crux of the problem, in my view, is that understanding language requires understanding the world, and a machine exposed only to language cannot gain such an understanding. Consider what it means to understand “The sports car passed the mail truck because it was going slower.” You need to know what sports cars and mail trucks are, that cars can “pass” one another, and, at an even more basic level, that vehicles are objects that Read More ›