Re:Are Humans Intelligent? An AI Op-Ed
by tsimionescu on Wednesday August 05, 2020 @02:06PM
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> They can perfectly (at least very soon) approximate the behavior of "Joe". But they get nowhere close to even touching anything like the Einstein's of humanity.
This is profoundly underestimating the intelligence of 99.999% of the human race. GPT-3 is doing nothing even remotely close to 'approximating the behavior of "Joe"'. It's not even close to approximating the behavior of a rabbit. It doesn't have goals that it tries to achieve, it doesn't understand its environment and formulate plans for achieving those goals. It can't look at its past and distill some events into a life lesson, or teach you how to perform a basic skill.
The only thing that GPT-3 is good at is producing output that looks like what humans produce when they close down their minds. Yes, GPT-3 is as good as a human at making up stories that don't mean anything, or arguments that go nowhere. It cod probably even produce decent elevator music. But that only shows how mind numbing and devoid of creativity some tasks that we force humans to do really are.
This is profoundly underestimating the intelligence of 99.999% of the human race. GPT-3 is doing nothing even remotely close to 'approximating the behavior of "Joe"'. It's not even close to approximating the behavior of a rabbit. It doesn't have goals that it tries to achieve, it doesn't understand its environment and formulate plans for achieving those goals. It can't look at its past and distill some events into a life lesson, or teach you how to perform a basic skill.
The only thing that GPT-3 is good at is producing output that looks like what humans produce when they close down their minds. Yes, GPT-3 is as good as a human at making up stories that don't mean anything, or arguments that go nowhere. It cod probably even produce decent elevator music. But that only shows how mind numbing and devoid of creativity some tasks that we force humans to do really are.