Johannes Ernst
Johannes Ernst  ·  4 months ago
In all the hoopla about #AI you’d sort of think people would be debating strong vs weak AI vs the limits of “thinking” by any kind of machine as it has been debated for centuries. Like the Chinese Room thought experiment. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room

But I see nothing of that. Why is that? Do we simply now assume these issues have been resolved in favor of unlimited machine intelligence and all the doubters have been convinced?

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Dan Lyke
Dan Lyke  ·  4 months ago
@J12t seems like the current crop are very much "weak AI", and demonstrating very clearly how far from "strong AI" we are. I think what's giving many of us pause is how clearly people esteemed by society and educated at prestigious universities are demonstrating that they're not any better at thinking than weak AI
Jack William Bell
Jack William Bell  ·  4 months ago
@danlyke @J12t

What we have now isn't even 'weak AI'. It's AS (Artificial Stupidity). I think machine learning and LLMs might be approaching the cognitive level of insects; but they have yonks to go before we are talking something capable of creating a plan to accomplish a goal it doesn't currently know how to reach.

Much less capable of creating a tool as part of the plan.

What I worry about isn't Roko's Basilisk or fast takeoff. It is AI we can't measure because we don't know how it works.