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Cicero and chatGPT — signs of AI progress?

Posted by gctwnlon December 12, 2022February 1, 2023in AI, All Posts, Background Knowledge, Brittle Logic, For the Board, Information Revolution6 Comments

Cicero, an AI, performed in the top 10% against human performers in the game Diplomacy, which is about negotiating with others. chatGPT is making the rounds with its impressive output. Are these AI breakthroughs or at least signs of real progress? Or signs of trouble to come?

It is life, Jim. But not as we know it.

Posted by gctwnlon July 7, 2022in AI, All Posts, Brittle Logic, Off Topic3 Comments

Blake Lemoine, a Google engineer, has claimed the LaMDA language neural net chatbot is sentient, is alive. Nonsense on stilts, according to one critic. A musing about the meaning of 'life'. And abortion. And doubt. And the point Lemoine has but doesn't make.