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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.

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

Posted by gctwnlon November 2, 2021November 2, 2021in Brittle Logic, Extended Humans, Gossip versus Ratio, Information Inertia, Information Revolution1 Comment

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.

Perspectives on the Information Revolution

Posted by gctwnlon January 13, 2021November 2, 2021in 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 gctwnlon March 4, 2020July 14, 2021in 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?