AI
by Matt Ross and · updated 19d ago
AI
- Many of the jobs we do today would have looked like trifling wastes of time to people a few hundred years ago, but nobody is looking back at the past, wishing they were a lamplighter
from The Intelligence Age by samaltman.com
Shachaf Rodberg added 19d ago
- A problem in any discussion of “AI” is that the uses are so varied that it is never clear what anyone is talking about. Using AI to spellcheck is different than using it to generate the entire work, with a whole range in-between. At what point does it go from a tool that assists an artist to the thing producing the art? There will not be a clean li... See more
from Art Without Intention by Lincoln Michel
phoebe added 1mo ago
- The community remains puzzled about whether these models genuinely generalize to unseen tasks, or seemingly succeed by memorizing the training data. This paper makes important strides in addressing this question. It constructs a suite of carefully designed counterfactual evaluations, providing fresh insights into the capabilities of state-of-the-ar... See more
from Reasoning skills of large language models are often overestimated by Zhaofeng Wu
Mary Martin added 2mo ago
- This is particularly important because there are already indications that many people who often interact with chatbots attribute consciousness to these systems. At the same time, the consensus among experts is that current AI systems are not conscious.
from Consciousness in AI: Distinguishing Reality from Simulation - Neuroscience News by Wanja Wiese
Mary Martin added 2mo ago
- intelligence has inadvertently become a ‘human success’-shaped cookie cutter we squish onto other species. Switching from baking to sports metaphors, we could say that everyone else – animals, amoebas, AIs and aliens – has to play the game on a field that we have laid out, according to rules that we have established and proven ourselves extremely c... See more
from Chaos and cause by Abigail Desmond
Mary Martin added 2mo ago
- In ordinary language, we frequently speak of machinery or ideas ‘doing’ things in our lives. But they do nothing. People – human persons – produce, operate and apply their creations. The problem with assigning agency, even informally, to the nonhuman is that this disguises the strength of human control, limited though it is in other respects. It le... See more
from On hope, philosophical personalism and Martin Luther King Jr | Aeon Essays by Bennett Gilbert
Mary Martin added 3mo ago
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/351893/consciousness-ai-machines-neuroscience-mind
The great substrate debate: Biochauvinism versus artificial consciousness
Mary Martin added 4mo ago
If consciousness really can arise in a jumble of silicon chips, we run the risk of creating countless AIs — beings, really — that can not only intelligently perform tasks, but develop feelings about their lives.
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Rather than asking if each new AI system is finally the one that has conscious experience, focusing on the more fundamental que
... See moreMary Martin added 4mo ago
What AI Can Do Today
Sandra ODonnell added 4mo ago