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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNoam Chomsky on AI. The best short observation I've seen yet.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/08/opinion/noam-chomsky-chatgpt-ai.htmlThe human mind is not, like ChatGPT and its ilk, a lumbering statistical engine for pattern matching, gorging on hundreds of terabytes of data and extrapolating the most likely conversational response or most probable answer to a scientific question. On the contrary, the human mind is a surprisingly efficient and even elegant system that operates with small amounts of information; it seeks not to infer brute correlations among data points but to create explanations.
usonian
(12,364 posts)Jim__
(14,351 posts)Martin68
(24,074 posts)pattern recognition entities are worth the investment. It could free up doctors and other professionals from the drudgery of pouring through billions of data points looking for significant patterns. There is evidence that AI might perform more efficient and sensitive analyses of X-rays and other imaging techniques in identifying disease, for example. In the end, it is up to the human brain to evaluate and decide whether or how to act on the results.
SWBTATTReg
(23,566 posts)your questions to get the hopeful results you're looking for.
erronis
(16,445 posts)Humans have served as the usual pattern-recognition experts for eons and well into the most recent few years.
For a long time we've been told that, yes computers can scan photos and read texts but they can never do as well as humans.
When we started seeing real-time image recognition by cameras, instant voice processing and translating, machine-learning algorithms to identify friend or foe; then we started to see what is possible with these techniques (and hardware).
I now trust my CT scans or echo-cardiograms or MRIs to be done by machine learning more than I trust a specialist with a high technical or medical degree. But I still want those specialists to have the final interpretation and make the recommendation.
Ford_Prefect
(8,163 posts)horrible lies and probably worse if it is not properly regulated and if those developing it are not reasonably circumspect.
Imagine the results....... Oops won't begin to cover it.
IMO the genie is already out of the bottle and we are desperately playing catch up.
Cheezoholic
(2,412 posts)Tools
SWBTATTReg
(23,566 posts)be here?
jaxexpat
(7,435 posts)"....
Some operate on painfully little information or misinformation or information which suits their preconceptions. They vote Republican from habit, call themselves "conservatives" (never appreciating the irony in that) and primarily function as cheerleaders for totalitarian bullies and clowns.
They're not going to like totalitarianism. There's not much tolerance for loud-mouthed fools (patriotic or otherwise) in totalitarianism. Totalitarians just want people to take their pills regularly and die on schedule.
airplaneman
(1,265 posts)AI can only mine the past and without human input the data will degrade. Lee Cronin has advanced these ideas.
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Mr.Bill
(24,597 posts)an oxymoron.