On Sun, Mar 12, 2023 at 1:12 PM Lawrence Crowell < [email protected]> wrote:
*> Remember no matter haw complex an algorithm it is ultimately a lot of > Boolean switching acting on what ever data is dumped into it.* Yes but I see no evidence that the same thing couldn't be said about the human brain. John K Clark > > LC > > On Sunday, March 12, 2023 at 11:42:12 AM UTC-5 John Clark wrote: > >> The linguist Noam Chomsky wrote what in my opinion was a very foolish >> article in the New York Times called "The False Promise of ChatGPT" in >> which he tried to simultaneously make the case that a computer could never >> do what ChatGPT can clearly already do, and that it wouldn't make any >> difference even if it could, and that it could reach false conclusions if >> it was fed false data (as if that wasn't also true for human beings), and >> that it was terrible that it didn't give its personal opinion on moral >> issues even though Chomsky would certainly criticize it even more if it did >> take such a stand. ChatGPT reads everything so somebody asked Sydney what >> him what he thought about Chomsky's article and I think the machine gave a >> pretty good rebuttal: >> >> ChatGPT's rebuttal to Chomsky >> <https://twitter.com/SebastienBubeck/status/1634009568341622784> >> >> Quantum computer expert Scott Aaronson also has some interesting things >> to say about this: >> >> The false promise of Chomskyism <https://scottaaronson.blog/> >> >> John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis >> <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis> >> >> 5te >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/907f2e65-1214-4d88-838a-4d6e049459cbn%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/907f2e65-1214-4d88-838a-4d6e049459cbn%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv3a39%3DKrjj1u91%3DJ0bnQsmyEK_SQsw5d3f2BTpSO7udhg%40mail.gmail.com.
