On 29/07/2023 10:54 pm, Kim Holburn wrote:
Quote: AI is improving all the time but at its very best you will only ever get serviceable imitations of mediocre products. But plenty of successful mainstream movies are merely mediochre recycled products.
While this is true, when output is based only on existing data, emphasis on only, there can be no change, no imagination, no discovery, no creation. The conclusion in the statement above is true, but irrelevant. Mediocre is not the limit of human creation because at least some humans are pushing for progress, development and change.
The current AI language models are based on existing structures. I wonder if the current models can write in the style of combined James Joyce and aa milne? I've seen that it can write in the style of Shakespeare. But those three are known styles. Where is the emergence of new styles? Can it be set to create a new style? Or does it then say, "I'm sorry, Dave, but I cannot create new things. Next." But we do know it can and does produce nonsense output, then apologises (nice of it) when the user tells it it's wrong.
Computer assisted decision making is valuable if the emphasis is on 'assisted'. And even then, the final decisions need to be controlled by humans, otherwise we get unchallenged Robodebt nonsense and 'computer says no' situations everywhere, or autocrats replicated everywhere who rely on those systems. (Have you seen Trump lately?) IMO intelligence is a human attribute, not a mechanical or robotic one.
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