But are humans just slightly more advanced, chemical-based AI? I don't know. Certainly through the Internet, they seem like it. Go to Reddit and look at the comment section. Especially in political discussions. I'm not convinced the "humans" posting there are not just the dumb output of language models--certainly not much more advanced than ChatGPT. When you [think you] have an opinion about something, how do you know it's actually an original thought, and not just the algorithmic output of your brain's many years of "model training". The word I type next in this comment may, when you peel back all the superstition about "souls" and "free will", simply be my language model's nextWord() function. What is original art? If I paint a picture or compose music, it's not original. It's based on my many years of observing the world, looking at other art, listening to other music. What hubris to think that just because it leapt from human fingers onto a canvas that it's somehow imbued with originality!
Did ChatGPT write this comment?
Humans are pretty good at the next word prediction.
(that passage is from Why Your Brain Can Read Jumbled Letters - https://www.treehugger.com/why-your-brain-can-read-jumbled-l... )
From Your Brain Is a 'Prediction Machine': It Predicts What the Other Person Is Going to Say (2014) https://www.learning-mind.com/your-brain-is-a-prediction-mac...
> Until now scientists believed that our brain processes the stimuli received from the environment from the “bottom-up”, that is, when we hear someone speak, the auditory cortex of the brain processes the sound first and then activates other areas that are responsible for speech comprehension.
> However, more and more neuroscientists seem to support the theory that the brain ultimately analyzes the external stimuli from the “top-down”, which makes the brain a kind of “prediction machine”.
> As reported by U.S. researchers, our brain anticipates constantly in order to be able to respond lightning-fast and accurately to anything that is going to happen. For example, it is able to predict words and sounds from the context. From the phrase “grass is…” we can easily predict the continuation – it is probably the word “green”.
> > “Our findings show that the brain of both the speaker and the listener uses the process of language prediction. This results in similar brain patterns in both interlocutors,” said the study’s senior author Dr. Suzanne Dikker from the Department of Psychology, University of New York. “This happens even before the speaker utters the phrase he is thinking“.
https://www.amazon.com/Surfing-Uncertainty-Prediction-Action...