Noam Chomsky: The False Promise of ChatGPT

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Jeffrey Watumull
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Jorge Luis Borges once wrote that to live in a time of great peril and promise is to experience both tragedy and comedy, with “the imminence of a revelation” in understanding ourselves and the world. Today our supposedly revolutionary advancements in artificial intelligence are indeed cause for both...

Jorge Luis Borges once wrote that to live in a time of great peril and promise is to experience both tragedy and comedy, with “the imminence of a revelation” in understanding ourselves and the world. Today our supposedly revolutionary advancements in artificial intelligence are indeed cause for both concern and optimism. Optimism because intelligence is the means by which we solve problems. Concern because we fear that the most popular and fashionable strain of A.I. — machine learning — will degrade our science and debase our ethics by incorporating into our technology a fundamentally flawed conception of language and knowledge.

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Glenn Greenwald 2mos

I'm not endorsing any or all of this, but this NYT op-ed by 2 linguists and an AI specialist (one of whom is Chomsky) is very worth reading. It argues that the current AI model of ChatGPT is and always will be a primitive and inferior form of thought:

Francesca Bria 2mos

"Given the amorality, faux science and linguistic incompetence of these systems, we can only laugh or cry at their popularity" Must read Noam Chomsky on #ChatGPT and the horizon of artificial general intelligence