Tag: language

GPT and Friends bamboozle us big time

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After watching my talk that explains GPT in a non-technical way, someone asked GPT to write critically about its own lack of understanding. The result is illustrative, and useful. "Seeing is believing", true, but "believing is seeing" as well.

Cicero and chatGPT — signs of AI progress?

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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.

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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.

Are we humans still ‘top dog’ in this brave new world of massive IT?

Posted by on in Brittle Logic, Extended Humans, Gossip versus Ratio, Information Inertia, Information Revolution2 Comments

What is the information revolution doing to us humans? A very condensed journey from essences of digital technology and human intelligence to the role of talk, trust and the impact of IT — especially social media — on society. We are most intelligent on the planet, but that is a relative measure. Our intelligence has serious weaknesses, some of which the IT revolution is now making painfully visible. We must hope that we're intelligent enough to accept that we're not very intelligent. That may be an even more difficult paradigm shift than Copernicus' or Darwin's.

Perspectives on the Information Revolution

Posted by on in Brittle Logic, Extended Humans, Gossip versus Ratio, Information Inertia, Information Revolution8 Comments

What is the information revolution doing to us humans? A very condensed journey from essences of digital technology and human intelligence to the role of talk, trust and the impact of IT on society.

Gossip, Trust and the Information Revolution (‘value’ vs. ‘values’)

Posted by on in Extended Humans, Gossip versus Ratio, Information Revolution, Information Revolution 47 Comments

Our massive use of IT (the information revolution with its information inertia and its fast but stupid behaviour) is enabling our innate behaviour to surge against our learned behaviour and that is severely damaging the social structures we humans have created. Why is this happening and what can we do about it?