An understanding of AI’s limitations is starting to sink in

Re:An understanding of AI’s limitations is starting to sink in by mellosouls on Monday June 15, 2020 @10:13AM (#23527521)

Where in the GPT models is the conscious (or even subconscious) thinking, comprehension, understanding, relating to experience, imagination etc, etc, you know: actual intelligence as a human would feel and use it, general or otherwise?

Tic Tac Toe, Chess, Image Classifying, Translation, Go, Sentence Construction, etc.; We are creating phenomenally impressive calculating worm-equivalents, but nothing human-level, or even remotely so.

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Re:An understanding of AI’s limitations is starting to sink in by thu2111 on Monday June 15, 2020 @02:13PM (#23530887)

Where in the human mind are these things? We judge that they exist based primarily on what people say and do. GPT-style models can't do anything, but they can say. And for better or worse a whole lot of ordinary, everyday speech doesn't have a whole lot of thinking, comprehension or imagination to it. It's just people saying what other people seem to be saying in order to try and stay with the herd. GPT-3 is scarily close to matching that.

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Re:An understanding of AI’s limitations is starting to sink in by burntoutfire on Monday June 15, 2020 @02:46PM (#23531330)

So, they're getting pretty close to matching us in mindlessness and stupidity. Call me when they can match us in our highs, not in our lows.

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Re:An understanding of AI’s limitations is starting to sink in by thu2111 on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @04:44AM (#23537096)

Yep, pretty much :)

It's pretty fascinating that nobody (AFAIK) really predicted that, except perhaps Isaac Asimov. Sci-fi normally presents AI as either superintelligent or non-existent (just basic voice commands). I don't think I've seen one which presents it as an AI ecology of idiocracy.

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