Noam Chomsky on AI. The best short observation I've seen yet.

[LAS14]

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https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/08/opinion/noam-chomsky-chatgpt-ai.html

The human mind is not, like ChatGPT and its ilk, a lumbering statistical engine for pattern matching, gorging on hundreds of terabytes of data and extrapolating the most likely conversational response or most probable answer to a scientific question. On the contrary, the human mind is a surprisingly efficient and even elegant system that operates with small amounts of information; it seeks not to infer brute correlations among data points but to create explanations.

[usonian]

1. It's archived, and a good read.

https://archive.ph/psq9M

[Jim__]

2. Thanks for that link - and I agree, a good read.

[Martin68]

3. I agree that AI has it limitations, but the potential breakthroughs in medicine and other fields by a powerful

pattern recognition entities are worth the investment. It could free up doctors and other professionals from the drudgery of pouring through billions of data points looking for significant patterns. There is evidence that AI might perform more efficient and sensitive analyses of X-rays and other imaging techniques in identifying disease, for example. In the end, it is up to the human brain to evaluate and decide whether or how to act on the results.

[SWBTATTReg]

6. Good points, kind of reminds me of the old saying, garage in, garage out, it's how you phrase your inquiries,

your questions to get the hopeful results you're looking for.

[erronis]

9. And right now, this very fast and thorough pattern recognition is why AI is so important.

Humans have served as the usual pattern-recognition experts for eons and well into the most recent few years.

For a long time we've been told that, yes computers can scan photos and read texts but they can never do as well as humans.

When we started seeing real-time image recognition by cameras, instant voice processing and translating, machine-learning algorithms to identify friend or foe; then we started to see what is possible with these techniques (and hardware).

I now trust my CT scans or echo-cardiograms or MRIs to be done by machine learning more than I trust a specialist with a high technical or medical degree. But I still want those specialists to have the final interpretation and make the recommendation.

[Ford_Prefect]

4. AI is neither fish nor fowl exclusively. It can assist developing answers and asking questions. It can also lead to

horrible lies and probably worse if it is not properly regulated and if those developing it are not reasonably circumspect.

Imagine the results....... Oops won't begin to cover it.

IMO the genie is already out of the bottle and we are desperately playing catch up.

[Cheezoholic]

5. AI and the Red Tie Brigade are exactly the same things

Tools

[SWBTATTReg]

7. I tend to agree w/ Mr. Chomsky on this. If the human brain reacted too slow to sudden events, would we even all

be here?

[jaxexpat]

8. Noam hit the nail squarely. The key statement of fact in his words are......

"....

human mind is a surprisingly efficient and even elegant system that operates with small amounts of information

......"

Some operate on painfully little information or misinformation or information which suits their preconceptions. They vote Republican from habit, call themselves "conservatives" (never appreciating the irony in that) and primarily function as cheerleaders for totalitarian bullies and clowns.

They're not going to like totalitarianism. There's not much tolerance for loud-mouthed fools (patriotic or otherwise) in totalitarianism. Totalitarians just want people to take their pills regularly and die on schedule.

[airplaneman]

10. The human mind and consciousness is capable of mining the future.

AI can only mine the past and without human input the data will degrade. Lee Cronin has advanced these ideas.
-Airplane

[Mr.Bill]

11. Artificial Intelligence is

an oxymoron.

[live love laugh]

12. Like the internet and most things there's both good and bad sides.