Re: NYTimes.com: We Need to Talk About How Good A.I. Is Getting

2022-08-25 Thread Brent Meeker
On 8/25/2022 1:00 PM, smitra wrote: If intelligent life that's way more intelligent than insects gets replaced by AI systems with insect level intelligence together with all other life except microbes on a planet, then they are back where biology was in the Cambrian era. The fundamental

Re: NYTimes.com: We Need to Talk About How Good A.I. Is Getting

2022-08-25 Thread smitra
If intelligent life that's way more intelligent than insects gets replaced by AI systems with insect level intelligence together with all other life except microbes on a planet, then they are back where biology was in the Cambrian era. The fundamental issue is that intelligence creatures will

Re: NYTimes.com: We Need to Talk About How Good A.I. Is Getting

2022-08-25 Thread smitra
On 24-08-2022 19:41, John Clark wrote: On Wed, Aug 24, 2022 at 1:28 PM smitra wrote: All intelligent life in the universe likely ends in this way. The takeover by machines with insect-level intelligence or less, then explains why the galaxy hasn't already been colonized (the so-called Fermi

Re: NYTimes.com: We Need to Talk About How Good A.I. Is Getting

2022-08-25 Thread John Clark
On Thu, Aug 25, 2022 at 6:13 AM Telmo Menezes wrote: *> Why aren't we being visited by alien AIs? * Yes, that is the big question. The most obvious answer is because we are the first, and sometimes the most obvious answer turns out to be correct. John K ClarkSee what's on my new list at

Re: NYTimes.com: We Need to Talk About How Good A.I. Is Getting

2022-08-25 Thread Telmo Menezes
I suspect AI is already past insect-level for some tasks, e.g. image recognition and language understanding. The number of parameters in a state-of-the-art huge language model or in something like DALL-E 2 means that these are probably already more complex than an insect nervous system. I might

Re: NYTimes.com: We Need to Talk About How Good A.I. Is Getting

2022-08-24 Thread Samiya Illias
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Re: NYTimes.com: We Need to Talk About How Good A.I. Is Getting

2022-08-24 Thread Brent Meeker
The funny thing is that it's not really that AI is reaching high levels of intelligence; it's that humans aren't nearly as smart as they think they are.  I just read about the Rosenhan Experiment, which I had not heard of before although I was good friends with a psychologist at the local

Re: NYTimes.com: We Need to Talk About How Good A.I. Is Getting

2022-08-24 Thread smitra
Thanks for sharing! My comment on this article: https://nyti.ms/3dQoxqU#permid=120043436 "It is inevitable that AI systems will end up becoming good enough to run the economy, repair and reproduce themselves. Biology shows us that this does not require highly intelligent systems. As things

NYTimes.com: We Need to Talk About How Good A.I. Is Getting

2022-08-24 Thread John Clark
Check out this article from The New York Times. Because I'm a subscriber, you can read it through this gift link without a subscription. We Need to Talk About How Good A.I. Is Getting We’re in a golden age of progress in artificial intelligence. It’s time to start taking its potential and risks